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On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:54 am, Matthias Pirstitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :)
>
> I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and
> when I try to start X, it crashes with "Caught signal 11.  Server
> aborting".
>
> There are no other error messages, only the following warning:
> "RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum".
>
> I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8.

I'm using a ATI Mobility Radeon on FreeBSD 5.1. I've had no problems at all.
What drive are you using in XF86Config, the 'ati' or the 'radeon'.

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