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From: "John R. Preisler" <john@vapornet.net>
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:57:26 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jason@washington.edu>
Cc: "John R. Preisler" <john@vapornet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: netscape freezing
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I do not use an .Xresources file.  This is XFree86 3.3.2 out of the
box.

-j


Jason C. Wells writes:
 > On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, John R. Preisler wrote:
 > 
 > >netscape:
 > >X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or
 > >internal Xlib length error)
 > >  Major opcode of failed request:  60 (X_FreeGC)
 > >  Serial number of failed request:  44851
 > >  Current serial number in output stream:  44853
 > >  Widget hierarchy of resource: unknown
 > 
 > >and then it freezes.  top says netscape is still in select, but it
 > >wont respond to ctrl-{c,z} and must be specifically sent a kill
 > >signal.  This problem manifests itself most frequently when using
 > >scrollbars.
 > >
 > >
 > >psm0 at 0x60-0x64 irq 12 on motherboard
 > >psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
 > >
 > >
 > >is what dmesg shows.  Ive tried multiple mice in both serial and ps/2
 > >mode and this problem is easily reproducable either way.  I run
 > >3.0CAM-19980712-SNAP on an asus p2b-ls logic board with a microsoft
 > >intellimouse pro and ibm kb-8923 keyboard.  Everything else works
 > >fine, otherwise.  I've rebuilt X from source and remade world but
 > >neither solved the problem.  Any tips/suggestions?
 > 
 > I doubt this is a mouse problem.
 > 
 > How do you handle .Xresources? Do you merge them? Your X inititialization
 > file should have an entry...
 > 
 > xrdb -merge .Xresources
 > 
 > ... or something similar depending on how you have your Xwindows
 > initialized.
 > 
 > If you use xrdb -load (the default for xrdb) then all of your Netscape
 > defined application defaults will be overwritten for that X session.
 > 
 > I do not know for sure if this will solve your problem. I am guessing that
 > you are wiping out some Xresources.
 > 
 > Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
 > Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
 > 

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