Xorg Configuration trouble: FreeBSD 5.4

[Yuri Pankov]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 19:10 +0530, Arindam wrote:
> I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a
> lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII
> box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting
> it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of
> SDRAM at 100MHz (actually 384 ... but that's another story), and I
> installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ...
> connected to the Primary master IDE interface.
> 
> Now I had these two FreeBSD 5.4 ISOs ... CD1 and CD2, and I booted
> from CD1 directly and did the install. There is no automatic X
> configuration in the installer so I tried running it manually.
> 
> 1. I tried running "Xorg -configure". For some reason "Xorg
> -configure" threw an error:
> xf86EnableIO: could not open /dev/io for extended IO. However, when I did run:
> 
> ls -l /dev/io
> 
> I got:
> 
> crw------- root wheel 246, 14 /dev/io
> 
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If you are still getting this error, you should read init(8) manpage
regarding kern.securelevel and decrease it, if it's the case.


Yuri