problem starting X with normal user

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Feb 20 06:27:14 PST 2004


John <clrsky00 at yahoo.com> writes:

> thank you very much..
> 
> yes warpper-1.0.3 is installed...
> 
> i don't know what else could be wrong... 
> 
> as for the siliconmotion issue, 
> 
> i found this :
> -bash-2.05b$ tail -f /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> (II) Silicon Motion     SMI_GEReset called from
> smi_accel.c line 263
> (II) Silicon Motion     SMI_GEReset called from
> smi_accel.c line 263
> (II) Silicon Motion     SMI_GEReset called from
> smi_accel.c line 263

Hmm.  My copies of those files don't quite match up.
Perhaps you should try the latest ports?  
You did, after all, have some sort of problems installing the ports,
so you may have some mismatched pieces of the X system.

> A search on google lead me to 
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2003/03/28/0004.html
> 
> the guy provides a "fix", but i don't know how to apply it

You apply it with patch(1), but I think it's for a different problem.


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