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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:45:14 +0200
From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com>
To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86
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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:32:07 -0500, Gerard Samuel
<fbsd-questions@trini0.org> wrote:
> I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3.  When running startx, it ends up with
> this error ->
> 
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
> 

Does /dev/io exist ? Have you got Xwrapper installed
(/usr/ports/x11/wrapper) ?  Only other cause for this is if your
kern.securelevel is set above 1

A quick google would have given you several clues :)

Nelis