From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 02:25:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA02470 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:25:49 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA02465 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:25:42 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA09237; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:17:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510090947.TAA09237@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: XF86_S3 & emacs/other X11 clients To: fd@bsd.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Falko Dressler) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:17:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510090848.JAA02808@bsd.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> from "Falko Dressler" at Oct 9, 95 09:48:02 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1262 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Falko Dressler stands accused of saying: > I tried to start X11(R6/R5) clients like the GNU emacs or pcemu (with some DOS programs in it) > under the XFree 3.1.1 S3 server but I failed. Everytime the server crashes with some > unexpected errors. > Do you have any idea how to solve this problem? Yes. Fix the cause of the errors. > Falko Dressler Falko.Dressler@rrze.uni-erlangen.de (In case you hadn't noticed, the above language technique is called "irony". If you don't have a sense of humour, you can read the above as "No, I haven't the faintest idea how to solve the problems, and indeed you can't solve them because Xfree86 is in fact a hoax. It's really an Amiga emulator with every third byte replaced with one taken randomly from a really inaccurate translation of the Koran into sanskrit.") Mike (Who might also be a hoax, but probably isn't.) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[