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akr41

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Registered: 2021-06-12

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[SOLVED] startx spits out a lot of errors related to xkeyboard

I just did a clean install of arch and DWM and did startx.

To log startx to used the command:

 startx > ~/startx.log 2>&1 

Here is the startx log:
startx.log

Here is the Xorg.0.log
Xorg.0.log

Here is my .xinitrc
.xinitrc

I kept getting:

xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)

in my previous install of arch and i3 (doing startx) but I didn't bother much about it.
But now I feel like I need to address this issue.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

Last edited by akr41 (2021-06-13 18:15:52)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] startx spits out a lot of errors related to xkeyboard

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -permitted
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1615700

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akr41

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Re: [SOLVED] startx spits out a lot of errors related to xkeyboard

So, do i ignore the error? Because the below suggested fix doesn't work for me.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -permitted

And here they say it's safe to ignore.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1615700

Still it's a bummer to know that are there's some issues with my install.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] startx spits out a lot of errors related to xkeyboard

Neither is an issue nor an error. It's purely cosmetic.

One is an outcome of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg
It fails to do https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/iopl.2.html and the reason that this happens at all is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#History (read the years used in that paragraph…)

The other one of a wider symbol map because of wayland which actively introduced values that are "illegal" on X11.

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akr41

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Re: [SOLVED] startx spits out a lot of errors related to xkeyboard

Oh I see.. Thank you for clarifying my doubts.
I'll mark this as solved then.