From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 7 17: 1:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E839837B400 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75ECB31A133; Tue, 7 May 2002 19:01:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:01:28 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Pete French , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experiences with XFree86-4 on 4.6-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20020508000128.GC35394@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , Pete French , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020507154652.A57358@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020507154652.A57358@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:46:52PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:28:50PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > > > 2) Netscape does not seem to work properly at all. It renders pages > > with fragments of them being white wityh thin vertical yellow > > bars. This is a serious problem for me as it makes the machine > > virtualy unusable for browsing the internet. Has anyone else seen this > > effect at all, and is there any fix for it. I would do a net search, but > > as the browser isnt working thats not really practical! > > > > I am using the Matrox Millenium II drivers on an 8MB card. > > Sounds like a driver problem. There are other (text-mode) browsers > you can use to investigate this (w3m, links, lynx, etc). > I believe when you install XFree it displays a banner that says the MGA drivers are experimental, but I don't know if that driver covers your card. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message