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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!edchiu From: Eddie Chiu <edchiu@kaiwan.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11 on freebsd Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:32:30 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Lines: 51 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950801173202.21705B-100000@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> References: <3v1hud$ith@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <199507280454.WAA29873@intele.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199507280454.WAA29873@intele.net> Hi Barnacle, Thanks for your help. On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Barnacle Wes wrote: > 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" > > > -- > Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late > Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder > Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... > wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eddie Chiu edchiu@kaiwan.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------