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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
cc: Gang-Ryung Uh <uh@NU.cs.fsu.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: netscape4
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I too had a problem with getting applets to run with b3 (and b2 for that
matter) but recently found a fix.  If you get a floating point exception
whenever Java starts up (that was my symptom) then check to make sure your
X server is running with >256 colours.  256 colours (i.e. bpp 8) is
apparently insufficient.  When I fixed up my XF86Config so I could 'startx
-- -bpp 16' the problems went away and Java works great!

Hope this helps!

---- Ken

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Pedro Giffuni wrote:

> Gang-Ryung Uh wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> >    But, I can not run any applet on this fancy looking new web browser.
> >    Am I missing something? (as always I did before)
> > 
> I heard some noise in the ports list that this beta is worthless...
> 
> 
> --Pedro.
> 
> >    Thanks.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Gang-Ryung Uh
> > (uh@cs.fsu.edu)
> 
> 
> 
>