From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 29 15:50:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA20941 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au ([131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14822 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:28:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id JAA08982; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:27:42 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:27:40 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au To: David Langford , David Langford cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux Netscape and Java In-Reply-To: <199602291140.BAA00381@caliban.dihelix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, David Langford wrote: > Carey Nairn > > > >Hi, > > > >I have been trying out the Linux version of Netscape 2.0 so I can play > >with Java. This seems to work fine unless I connect to a site which has > >Java applets, at which point Netscape dies and dumps core. I guess I am > >missing something. Can anyone offer any help ? > > > >thanks, > >Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au > > Netscape will do this if your X server is running in 16bpp mode. > According to the Netscape documentation it only runs in 8bpp and 24bpp > visuals. Useless IMHO. thats my problem... I use 16bpp mode all the time. Any iodea when the BSD version is slated to support Java ? > > Also be sure it can find the moz2.0.zip file. > > -David Langford > langfod@dihelix.com > ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================