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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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