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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:49:26 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        jasonla@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems starting X as a normal user
Message-ID:  <3B31B516.6FED6572@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010620235042.4992.qmail@web4604.mail.yahoo.com>

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Jason La schrieb:
> 
> 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.

Install the wrapper port (usr/ports/x11/wrapper) for XF86 4.x. Since
4.0, X has no SUID bit set, thus your problems.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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