From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 21:09:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA10780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:09:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10748 Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:09:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA10308; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:39:59 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601040509.PAA10308@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 and Java To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:39:59 +1030 (CST) Cc: d_burr@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jan 3, 96 07:54:46 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Matthew N. Dodd stands accused of saying: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Donald Burr wrote: > > Got it installed, and running. Boy is it nice. Well, almost. Whenever I > > try accessing a Java site (e.g. http://java.sun.com), I get: > > > > EMT trap (core dumped) > > Are you running in 16bit color mode? A linux using friend (is this > possible?) discovered that the Java stuff in NN doesn't work in 16bpp, only > 8 and 32 (boggle that). This appears to be a Motif thing; Linux IDL (also a Motif user) works fine in 8 or 32-bit modes, but dies interestingly on a 16-bit display. > | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | -- ]] 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." [[