Re: X problem

[John Gould <johng@powinv.co.uk>]

How are you trying to start X as a normal user? With 'startx'? Check that
the correct directories are in your path as that user.

John.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Marcin Bujak wrote:

> I've installed 3.3 snapshot on my Toshiba laptop.
> the problem is that I couldn't  start X as normal user (when I try as
> root its working)
>
> Where is output screen:
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to set IOPL for extended I/O
>         Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1'
>         in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine
>         refer to xf86(4) for details
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.
>
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>
>
> #cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/xf86 and /dev/mem
>         (Permission denied)
>         Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1'
>         in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine
>         refer to xf86(4) for details    linear framebuffer access
> unavailable
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to set IOPL for extended I/O
>         Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1'
>         in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine
>         refer to xf86(4) for details
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.
>
> #sysctl machdep.allowaperture
> machdep.allowaperture = 2
>
> Any ideas ?
>
>
> thanks Marcin