It sounds like you are running FreeBSD and have your system security set too strict to allow using XFree86 (which needs to be able to read and write hardware registers). Mark. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Gaetano wrote: > fatal server error: > xf86enableI0: Falide to open /dev/io for extended I/0 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86