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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: XFree86; Where to from here?
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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Chris Timmons wrote:

> 
> I had a similar problem with netscape-2b1 when displaying on an NCD
> x-terminal from a 2.0.5-R system.  In my case there were things in the font
> path that made netscape unhappy.  Things worked fine with my xfree86 machine
> at home, so if that's what you're running it may not necessarily be font
> related. 
>

	I'm running 2.1-stable, with the XF312 Mach64 server on an
ATI Mach64 4MB PCI Video card...v1.12 works nicely, only v2.x doesn't :(

	My first guess is that it has something to do with BSDi 
compatibilities in 2.1-stable are with pre-2.0, and netscape v2.x is
post-2.0...plausible?


> -Chris
> 
> On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've just installed XFree86 3.1.2.  twm is the default setup.
> > > > Can anyone here offer suggestions for other packages that may
> > > > be of interest on a single user setup?
> > > 
> > > 	try fvwm in place of twm.  much nicer.
> > > 
> > > 	netscape.  xv.  knews or netscape or some other X news reader.
> > >
> > 	Which netscape are you running?  I've tried 2.0b3, and for
> > some reason, I get nothing on the screen, altho the process remains
> > running.  v112 from ftp2.netscape.com seems to work fine...
> > 
> > 	any recommendations on an X news reader?  I've been sticking
> > pretty much to text one in an xterm (trn) and wonder if I'm missing
> > anything :)
> > 
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