startx problem

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Emon" <jadukor at gawab.com> writes:

> Hello everyone
> 
> I am a newbie. I have just Installed FreeBSD 5.3  and I am
> trying to get X started. But after typing "Xorg -configure" (I
> learned this from the Hand-Book) I got the following error 
> 
> **************************
> Fatal server error:
> 
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O

Did you try doing that as root?