x crashed

[jason]

marlon corleone wrote:

> after installing 5.2-RELEASE, startx crashed with this error, someone 
> that i should change the securelevel to '-1' well i did changed it but 
> same error message i also tried sysctl kern.secureleve="-1" as root 
> but the message is operation not permitted
>
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.2 i386 [ELF]
> Build Date: 07 December 2003
>        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
>        to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 15 19:04:33 2004
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> (==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
> (**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
> (**) |   |-->Monitor "samsung"
> (**) |   |-->Device "geforce"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
> (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
>        Entry deleted from font path.
>        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/").
> (**) FontPath set to 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75
> dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 
>
> /Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X1 
>
> 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
> (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
> (--) using VT number 9
>
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
>
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Don't mess with sercure level, that sounds like a linux thing to me.  
Weahter it is or not you should not need to do it.  Did you check to see 
if /dev/io is there?