[GLLUG] Addition to previous post

[C. Ulrich]

Thomas Alan Hearn wrote:
> I booted up linux without running the X server, opened up the file
> /var/log/XFree86.setup.log in emacs and got the following out of the log
> file:
> Fatal server error:
> Caught Signal 8.  Server aborting.
> Hopefully this helps!
> Thanks again.
> Tom

Signal 8 is a floating-point exception. Without seeing the rest of the
server's log output, this would be hard to diagnose. It might be possible to
track error down to a single module or driver, which would give us some kind
of starting point on troubleshooting the problem itself.

Additionally, you might try Red Hat 9, which is quite a bit newer and should
be all-around better. (But I haven't run RH since 4.2, so don't take my word
for it. :P) Don't get too discouraged, it often would take me up to 3 installs
of a new distro or distro version before I could get it right, and that was
well after I started becoming familiar with Linux. :)

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