On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, not able to start GUI

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Not able to start the GUI. From /var/log/Xorg.0.log, getting following logs:

    Fatal server error:
    [    74.999] xf86MapVidMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied)
    
  • selinux is in enforcing mode.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • selinux

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