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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:30:08 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        shahmeer@UVic.CA
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel Compile Errors
Message-ID:  <20001215123007.V19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.30.0012151204020.76090-100000@unix4.UVic.CA>; from shahmeer@UVic.CA on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:26:36PM -0800
References:  <Pine.A41.4.30.0012151204020.76090-100000@unix4.UVic.CA>

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* shahmeer@UVic.CA <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



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