Bug 87748

Summary: can't initialize X
Product: Base System Reporter: C.W.Hann <cwhann>
Component: amd64Assignee: freebsd-amd64 (Nobody) <amd64>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description C.W.Hann 2005-10-20 20:20:14 UTC
It can't initialize X. vidio card is NVIDIA GoForce 6100. The folloing is the output of log:

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.0 amd64 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Sun Oct  9 20:36:12 UTC 2005     root@rat.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Build Date: 02 October 2005
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/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 21 02:22:38 2005
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
	X.Org Video Driver: 0.7
	X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
	X.Org Server Extension : 0.2
	X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on freebsd
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
	ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 549739036674.0)
(--) using VT number 9


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

Fix: 

no
How-To-Repeat: just type:
#Xorg -configure
or
#X -config
Comment 1 peter 2005-10-22 19:12:07 UTC
On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:19 pm, C.W.Hann wrote:

> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O

You need to add 'device mem' and 'device io' to your kernel 
configuration and recompile.
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
Comment 2 Tilman Keskinoz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-01-17 14:16:55 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

device mem and device io are now in the DEFAULTS, so this should not be a 
problem anymore