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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 + XFree86 problem
Date: 29 Nov 1996 08:16:11 GMT
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rcisyk@bnr.ca (Rostyslav Cisyk ) wrote:

>   After configuring XFree86, the X server (XF86_S3) dies upon startup with
> the following error message. Does anybody happen to know why this is 
> happening? Is it because I am running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE rather than
> 2.1.5?

> (--) S3: with refclock 0.000 MHz (probed 4.706 & 5.294)
...
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 8.  Server aborting

Withouth looking into the source, i'd think it tries to divide through
this `refclock'.  See if the README's that accompany XFree86 tell you
something about your card, otherwise, get back to the XFree86 folks
with this report.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)