Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> On 11-Apr-98 Todd Vierling spoke unto us all:
> # On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Nathan Gelbard wrote:
> #
> # : Error: cannot get shared memory.
> # : Received signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
> #
> # Hm.  Do you have "options SYSVSHM" in your kernel?  I'm not sure that this
> # is what it wants, but "shared memory" either implies that or mmap(), and
> # mmap() can't be turned off... :)
> #
> 
> He is referring to MIT shared memory for X.  It should not be behaving like
> this unless your X server isn't compiled with MITSHM configured.  Are you
> running the NetBSD supplied XFree?
> 

Actually, even if the X server has the shared memory extension,
it is still necessary to have the SYSVSHM option in the kernel,
so Nathan needs to check both of these things.

To check the X server part, you can type "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo"
in an xterm and the command will list the X server's extensions,
among other things.