Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:50:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason La <jasonla00@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems starting X as a normal user Message-ID: <20010620235042.4992.qmail@web4604.mail.yahoo.com>
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I am running FreeBSD 4.3 Release, and I have successfully finished setting up XFree86 4.0.3 as root. My problem is that while I try to start X as a normal user, (startx), I get this error message: (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root Any help would be appreciated. ===== -- Jason La jasonla@pobox.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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