[ On Saturday, April 14, 2001 at 10:39:09 (+0200), Bernd Sieker wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: problem with X11 on 486 laptop
>
> On 14.04.01, 02:30:57, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > I'm getting the following error when I try to start X11 on this 486
> > laptop I've been playing with:
> > 
> > 	xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap /dev/vga (Invalid Argument)
> 
> If I remember correctly that's the message you get when you try to run
> an Xserver on i386 with a kernel security level of > 0. In that case
> you need the aperture driver lkm (it's in pkgsrc) and an Xserver
> that's aware of it. (The XFree 4 binaries for NetBSD found on
> xfree86.org often aren't.)

That was indeed the problem!  Thanks very much!  Too bad the error
message is so misleading and that the errno value returned wasn't
EACCES.

Too bad the LCD on that machine is apparently only 640x480 too!

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