From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 20:06:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA12301 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA12296 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA07025 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:06:21 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01478; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:34:07 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601170404.OAA01478@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: linux netscape 2.0b5 To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:34:07 +1030 (CST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jmurray@vt.edu, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601170214.VAA02605@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Jan 16, 96 09:14:41 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk matthew c. mead stands accused of saying: > > Because, I have no problems in running netscape-2b5-linux over here. > > I just tried a few java applets and got bored trying to crash > > netscape-linux . > > I'm running in 16bpp which is why it's crashing. Going to 8bpp or > 24bpp makes it not crash... *sigh* time to cough up for more VRAM :-) I've noticed that Motif applications for both Linux and SCO have problems with 16bpp displays when running under FreeBSD. > Matthew C. Mead -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[