From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 12:30:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 12:30:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA71C37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBFKU8e22281; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:30:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:30:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: shahmeer@UVic.CA Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Errors Message-ID: <20001215123007.V19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from shahmeer@UVic.CA on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:26:36PM -0800 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * shahmeer@UVic.CA [001215 12:27] wrote: > I wanted to recompile my kernel so that I could enable ipnat, get my sound > card working and optimize it somewhat for my system. I followed the instructions from the handbook > and the first time I compiled the kernel, everything went smoothly from > what i know. But then X windows suddenly stopped working. The startx > script gave the error: > (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) > linear framebuffer access unavailable Did you raise securelevel? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message