From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 12:52:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA19103 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:52:28 -0700 Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA19096 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:52:25 -0700 Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (sendmail) id DAA10611 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 03:52:14 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 1 Sep 1995 03:52:03 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <4253t3$a86$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: , <199508290404.WAA18900@rocky.sri.MT.net> Subject: Re: Netscape - uname() error Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes: >> I know this question may have already been asked before but please bear >> with me! >> >> Has anyone figured out how to resolve the Netscape error message: >> >> netscape: uname() failed, can't tell what system your running on. >Yes, ignore the error. It's a problem with Netscape's binary as this >exact error message is seen on *all* BSD versions. Fixed in -current, and I think I saw it go into 2.1-stable, but I am not sure. The Netscape executable was compiled on BSDI's BSD/386-1.1, which has some.. ahem.. "interesting" non-standard extensions to their kernel that their uname() function uses. None of the other BSD's provided it, including BSD/OS-2.0. BSDI provided a patch for BSD/OS, I did it for FreeBSD based on an email description of their interface. >> btw, has anyone experienced blurred or cut-off text when using >> Netscape? >Nope. Sounds like font scaling... :-( >Nate Cheers, -Peter