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Date:      06 Apr 2005 22:37:25 -0700
From:      Bill <beau@billbeau.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg -configure fails
Message-ID:  <1112852245.26173.34.camel@ws2.billbeau.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050407041314.GM64927@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1112849222.22155.22.camel@ws2.billbeau.net>  <20050407041314.GM64927@dan.emsphone.com>

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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
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