On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:13:39AM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: > > >On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > >>Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal > >>user it died telling me that : > >>-- start paste -- > >>(WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) > >> linear framebuffer access unavailable > >> > >>Fatal server error: > >>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root > >>-- end paste -- > >> > >> > >> > >Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package > > > > You are, of course, completely right. Thanks also to David Wolfskill for > pointing this out. > > When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message > explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does > anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add > xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package?
Adding xwrapper as a dependency is a good idea. It is in fact such a good idea that it has already been done, about a month ago. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
