vesa driver problem

[G. Sebastián Pedersen]

May 21, 2018 6:31 PM, "Adam Jackson" <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 17:12 +0000, G. Sebastián Pedersen wrote:
> 
>> [ 25.201] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
>> [ 25.201] xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
> 
> Pretty sure this means your X server isn't running as root, and needs
> to be.

I tried running X as root with no luck (although don't remember if the specific error you point disapper. Could check it when got home. The rest remains the same, I'm pretty sure about that.)

Thanks!


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G. Sebastián Pedersen