From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 12:48:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 12:48:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5379E37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBFKm4C02375; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:48:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:48:04 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: shahmeer@UVic.CA, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Errors In-Reply-To: <20001215123007.V19572@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Turn the kern_securelevel option in rc.conf to "NO", reboot, and install your kernel. You problems with not being able to run X are also related to having too high of a securelevel. There are workarounds for the problem with X, but I don't remember them off the top of my head. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message