From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Oct 22 15:46:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C94037B4C5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA04867; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:46:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Craig Burgess Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape Message-ID: <20001022154620.D4742@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:54:21PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:54:21PM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote: > Observations: there is no VGA16 server (upon which XF86Setup depends) > for XFree86. I've looked at several of the US FTP sites and of those Speak to the XFree86 Project. They're the ones that have made the VG16 driver unbuildable on the Alpha. (this is the case for AlphaLinux too). I'm going to change XF86Setup to use the mono server. > I've found, all are 45byte files - apparently empty. Yes, to make sysinstall not bomb out. I'll probably tweak sysinstalls X server menu for the Alpha and then remove the empty files. > I changed su's shell to tcsh [chsh -s /usr/local/bin/tcsh] which There is no need to do this on 4.1 and later as "/bin/csh" *is* Tcsh. > Finally, has anyone gotten Netscape for Tru64 to browse properly? Yes. I use it daily as it is much more stable than the FreeBSD native i386 version. > I got it installed and it launches but complains that it "cannot find" > urls by domain name. It displays my local webserver by IP number > (192.168.10.1). The same domains it can't find I can ping without any > problem so I'm almost confident that the nameserver entry in > resolv.conf is good. Does ``nslookup'' work? Does suggest a problem with your DNS configuration. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message