FreeBSD 4.6.2 & a few errors

[schotty]

Hi! I reinstalled FreeBSD Saturday and am having a few issues with getting it setup.

First I got an error that I think may be the mouse not being setup. But here is the text:

xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O

Also, what is the proper way to get a USB mouse to work? In dmesg I see that it is designated ums0, so would I tell X to just use /dev/ums0 ?

Thanks!

[elmore]

I've never had a problem with my usb mouse. Two things.

1. Make sure moused is enabled in your rc.conf
2. I generally set mouse section of my XFree86 file to auto.

See if that gets you anywhere.

[dowmun]

I got the same error message when trying to start x, and so did this guy:

http://www.faqchest.com/linux/freeBSD/fbsd-00/fbsd-0012/fbsd-001222/fbsd00120810_14824.html

I do not know if this is your problem, but when I set my security level to medium, and rebooted, I could at least start x. Of course, now I have a problem with the mouse in X.
Hope this helps.

[socomm]

How about adding the SUID to the Xserver? This will allow you to run the xserver with root permission.

[schotty]

Well it was that security level problem, for the most part. I ended up finding out what was wrong with the mouse, and that is fixed. I had it set to the device /dev/ums0 and protocol auto. Changed that to what the configurator said and that is fixed.

I still cant run X as a normal user though. I am trying to figure out why, and although I am tempted to SUID X, I really dont want to unless necessary. But it definitely is a permission error.
I get a "Cannot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log" when trying to login as a user. Is there a group that I should add myself to?

[socomm]

Xserver needs to have SUID if you wish to run it under a non root account, the default permissions are fhe following


r-sr-sr-x Xwrapper-4

[schotty]

well that did the trick.

Thanks socomm and everyone else!