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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X11 on freebsd
Date: 28 Jul 1995 04:53:29 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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To: edchiu@kaiwan.kaiwan.com
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edchiu@kaiwan.kaiwan.com (The Blade Runner) wrote:
>Hi there,
> Is this the right place to post a X11 guestion on Freebsd 2.0 ?
> If it is, then here it is.
>
> I had configured my Xconfig file.
> When I run startx, I got this error message.
>
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
>
> Fatal error,
>
> What is it ?
> How can I resolve it ?
System V IPC is not built into the FreeBSD kernel by default. I have added
the following settings to my kernel configuration for the X server, and
for Postgres database server (as implied by the comment). Programs that
require MIT-SHM extensions in the server seem to work fine.
#
# SYSV IPC options for X11R6 and Postgres
# Added Thu Feb 23 06:24:50 1995 by Wes
#
options SYSVIPC #System V IPC
options SYSVSHM #System V shared memory support
options SYSVSEM #System V Semophore support
options SYSVMSG #System V Message support
options "SEMMNI=20"
options "SEMUME=20"
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