Re: XFree86 crash (Failed to set IOPL for I/O)

[Kurt Garloff <K Garloff ping de>]

On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 04:02:37PM +0100, Dan Smely wrote:
> As I have troubles to get my XFree86 working on linux Alpha, and I
> couldn't find items about it I'm a little bit despaired.
> 
> executing startx it ends up with the error "xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to
> set IOPL for I/O".

Did you start it as root? Otherwise: Did you use Xwrapper or xinit (which
uses Xwrapper) to have it suid root ... ? What does startx do on your system ?

On iA32 there would be another possible reason: 2.0xx kernel compiled with
egcs, but this is obviously not your problem.

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