Yes, it's a 6 year old Gateway Laptop.
I thought this informations was for new users of their port system.
Anyway, I found a solution. I installed v5.2.1 on it. I still have a
few errors that I am working out, but the Xserver starts fine. I'll
start a new thread for them.
Lloyd Hayes
Email: [E
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:35:51 -0600, Lloyd Hayes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fatal server error:
> xfEnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
>
Are you running the GENERIC kernel? and uname -a please
Regards
S.
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Lloyd Hayes wrote:
Sorry, I didn't finish the reply before sending the previous message.
Yes, I was logged in as root.
I was looking and could not find a configuration file, so I started
reading the docs. They refer to setting the X- software during the
installation, but that option was not prese
I always think about things after I hit the SEND button.
A lot of people will be reading this and say, "18 bit color?"
That's what the Gateway specs say. 18 bit color depth for this computer.
Lloyd Hayes
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Sorry, I didn't finish the reply before sending the previous message.
Yes, I was logged in as root.
I was looking and could not find a configuration file, so I started
reading the docs. They refer to setting the X- software during the
installation, but that option was not presented to me. I can i
These two pages are part of the same online document which you can
download in PDF format.
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport2.html
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport3.html
Lloyd Hayes
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Lloyd Hayes wrote:
I think that I have this figured out.
On the X.Org website under New Port Users, it says that it only
supports 1280x1024 mode and color depths of only 8 and 24 bit.
My old laptop has a 800x600 screen and 16 bit color depth.
(For that matter, my newest laptop only has a 1024x768 p
With 5.3, I was typed:
Xorg -configure
I got:
Fatal server error:
xfEnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
This is on an older laptop with an external CD-ROM/Burner/DVD Player
connected by USB port. FreeBSD was installed using the external CD drive.
(It also has an internal CD drive, bu
