Antoine, thanks, quite right.. I saw the memo and misread it - the prompt
defaults to [no] now.

It may be worthwhile double checking the Aperture setting though.


-----Original Message-----
From: Antoine Jacoutot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 30 March 2006 15:26
To: Andrew Smith
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Errors during start of Xorg on 3.9

Selon Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> machdep.allowaperture. Make sure that is set to 2, this no longer gets set
> to 2 by answering yes to running X - this is a deliberate decision in 3.9
> and has been left out of the scripts to raise awareness of the security
> issues associated (see man xf86)

As far as I understand, machdep.allowaperture _does_ get set to 2 by
answering
yes to running X. However, while the default answer was set to yes, it is
now
set to no.

-- 
Antoine

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