Subject: Re: Cannot mmap /dev/vga?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/27/1999 16:42:02
In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9904271440080.12642-100000@cynic.anim.dreamworks.com>
, David Brownlee writes:
> Different video chipsets, one requiring direct memory access,
> the other not?
> (Though how that helps _fix_ the problem is another matter :)
Turns out he just needed options INSECURE; not sure why it complained about
/dev/vga, but it looks like if it can't map kmem, it tries to map /dev/vga
(even though we've never had one that I know of), and then complains about
that; a more informative error message would have been "cannot mmap /dev/kmem:
permission denied".
-s