Hello,
I posted this message twice to debian-user, and searched all over the
internet. Having not found an answer yet, I am reluctantly posting the
question here. Sorry to bother, but I am at a dead end.
I know I've seen this before, but I cannot find the solution anywhere. I
recently re-installed sid to an empty partition. I can run X as root
just fine. But when I try to run it as a user, I get the following
errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
I have a couple of other systems working fine, so I tried to duplicate
file permissions and other things, but it still doesn't work properly.
Here is some info:
XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1
hardin:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l X*
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7476 Aug 29 11:30 X
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 1584152 Aug 29 11:30 XFree86
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27494 Aug 29 11:26 Xmark
hardin:/dev# ls -l mem
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 1 Aug 29 21:51 mem
hardin:/usr/X11R6/bin# cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
I can't think of anything else to mention. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
