Subject: Re: Unable to mmap /dev/mem
To: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 11/13/2000 10:42:03
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> You wrote (in your message from Sunday 12)
> > A few packages (snes9x and xmame come to mind) refuse to go full-screen or
> > use DGA; they die with 'unable to mmap /dev/mem: invalid argument'. Any
> > suggestions on how to fix these? Please CC me in the reply, as I'm not on
> > tech-x11.
> >
>
> You need 'options INSECURE' in your kernel to be able to mmap
> /dev/mem.
INSECURE is in my kernel config, and I'm running at securelevel -1. I
tried this both with the aperture driver installed and not installed, same
results.
Jared