Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:53:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: netscape beta 8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012235248.9609Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971011140830.14005.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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On 11 Oct 1997, mark thompson wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I have installed netscape beta 8 for freebsd on my 2.2.1 system (with
> the latest xfree86 3.3.1). It seems to start once, but the second time
> that it it started in a single X session it seems to go into an endless
> loop thing, chewing time and displaying nothing.
A scan of the -current mail archives reveals the following...
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 97 14:56:31 EDT
From: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen)
To: roberto@eurocontrol.fr, thyerm@box.net.au
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.03b8 doesn't work after poll/select changes
Try adding this line to /usr/local/bin/netscape,
export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null
XF86 3.3.x uses CMS to do color lookup, and because of some FPE related
bugs
it would go into an infinite loop. Disable the CMS lookup seems to
circumvent
this problem, but it might surface later at some other part of the code.
-lq
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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