Problem with Custom Kernel

Tim Judd tajudd at gmail.com
Wed May 12 01:25:50 UTC 2010


On 5/11/10, Heshmat Ismail <real_precious_stone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> My name is Heshmat Ismail.The output of uname-a is:-
> FreeBSD  8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #12: Tue May 11 11:05:22 UTC
> 2010     heshmat@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> After I have built and installed my custom kernel  (MYKERNEL),i installed
> xorg and ran the command startx but i got: couldn't create cookie.What could
> be the problem with MYKERNEL? my kernel configuration file is attached with
> this message.
> Thanks,
> Heshmat Ismail
>


An XORG cookie is dealing with X authority, not with a kernel config.
Make sure all parts of xorg are installed.

Give us the scenario on what you do after login with all your commands
leading up to this error.


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