From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 04:40:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0DB16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:40:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC18D43D1F for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:40:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beau@billbeau.net) Received: from ws2.billbeau.net (c-24-6-130-139.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.6.130.139]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20050407043957013000ncf8e>; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 04:39:57 +0000 From: Bill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050407041314.GM64927@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1112849222.22155.22.camel@ws2.billbeau.net> <20050407041314.GM64927@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Apr 2005 22:37:25 -0700 Message-Id: <1112852245.26173.34.camel@ws2.billbeau.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xorg -configure fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:40:02 -0000 I found it. seems that xorkcfg doesnt like security. I removed two lines from my rc.conf file one for security enable and the other for security level. weird that it wouldnt alow root access to dev/io On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:13, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 06), Bill said: > > Im trying to install Xorg. I get an error message "failed to open > > /dev/io for extended IO" > > First check: Do you have a /dev/io device? Make sure you haven't > removed "device io" from your kernel config file. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >