Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
In answer to your question, Kevin P. Neal, "Yes.". I have the OS running
that way. However I am just running the SVGA server, with everything setup
the exact same way that I used to via Linux. It wasn't easy the first
several times, but life isn't supposed to be easy.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Kevin P. Neal
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:06 PM
> To: Andrew Gillham
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Can't get X running.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:50:23PM -0400, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> > Kevin P. Neal writes:
> > >
> > > Using the XF86_Mono, XF86_VGA16, and XF86_SVGA servers I run as root
> > > from the command line:
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X -verbose 2>&1
> > >
> > > I get this error:
> > > (--) checkDevMem: warning: failed to open /dev/mem and /dev/xf86
> > >         (No such file or directory)
> > >         linear framebuffer access unavailable
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap /dev/vga (Invalid argument)
> >
> > Do you have 'options INSECURE' in your kernel config?  Or have you
> > loaded the aperture (pkgsrc/sysutils/aperture) driver?
> > (options INSECURE is the default in i386/conf/GENERIC)
>
> Um, well, "I do now." Thanks. That error message could use
> some improvement.
>
> I've got X running now. Has anybody tried running multiple X
> servers recently? I had at one point three servers running
> in different resolutions and depths. It seemed OK, but when
> I tried to do this from xdm, and I rebooted, it all got hosed up.
>
> I had to power down my box to get the display reset to something
> my monitor could deal with. Err, or something my KVM switch could
> deal with. Err, or something.
>
> BTW, is startx supposed to work fine with started from a virtual
> terminal (wscons)? My keyboard ended up spitting out extra
> characters repeatedly, just like when xdm has X running on
> a vt that getty is running on.
> --
> Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
>
> "You know, I think I can hear the machine screaming from here...  \
> 'help me! hellpp meeee!'"  - Heather Flanagan, 14:52:23 Wed Jun 10 1998
>