On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:30:37PM +0200, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been given an Alphastation 200 recently.
> It came with a ZLXp-E3 framebuffer which is some
> sort of TGA. The first problem was that the
> xserver.tgz wasn't installed by default although
> I selected everything to be installed. After
> reinstalling that I can start X, but it is
> really awfully slow. As far as I understand the
> graphics card should do much better. I used
> a ZLXp-E3 in a Turbo-channel Alpha with Tru64
> some (long) time ago.
> 
> I tried using XFree86 instead. It's the current
> 4.4.0 from pkgsrc. When I start X I get this
> error in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> 
> (--) TGA(0): Chipset: "tga"
> (==) TGA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) TGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) TGA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (WW) TGA(0): Hardware cursor currently only works with BT485 ramdac
> (WW) TGA(0): Using SW cursor
> (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open/mmap /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
>         linear framebuffer access unavailable
> (II) has_bwx = 0
> (--) Machine needs sparse mapping
> (II) dense base = 0x300000000
> (II) memory base = 0x200000000
> 
> Fatal server error:
> xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (Bad file descriptor)
> 
> XFree86 is setuid root. I couldn't find any useful hints.
> Does anyone know what's wrong?

Check that kern.securelevel is set to 0 or -1. If not, you need to
rebuild a kernel with 'options INSECURE'

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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