From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 2 04:27:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05627 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05622 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 107evF-00048B-00; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:27:18 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA02703; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:26:51 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04546; Tue, 2 Feb 99 12:26:50 GMT Message-Id: <36B6EEEA.F33E26C2@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:26:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: G Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems:FreeBSD2.2.8R/Netscape4.5 References: <36B6EABB.9398A2B3@Swansea.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G wrote: > > Hi All. > > I'm having a problem which is driving me bonkers. I've just upgraded to > FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE (from 2.2.7) and to Netscape 4.5 (from 4.05). I > had 'system now trashed' type problems doing this with cvsup, and > eventually had to use a boot disk from www.freebsd.org to do a complete > reinstallation. > > Anyhow, now uname -a outputs the following: > > FreeBSD cscall.swan.ac.uk 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Mon > Nov 30 06:34:08 GMT 1998 > jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > My problem is that all the icons in Netscape are being displayed in > black and white. There seems to be something wrong with the X system. > I've tried lots of permutations in the XFree86 configuration in > /stand/sysinstall, but to no avail. I can get the X server to start up > ok, but it makes no difference to Netscape. I don't know if I have to > reinstall it from the ports collection, or what. > What version of XFree86 are you running?. This problem was raised in -questions a while ago and I'm pretty certain that you need XFree 3.3.3 to solve this (you could search the mailing lists). I'm running 2.2.8-R, XFree 3.3.3 and Communicator 4.5 and I have no problems. HTH > Another program that I run, xspect, now crashes, with an error message: > > Translation not implemented (bpp: 24; scrmul: 2) > > This is probably very program specific, but the 'translation' bit makes > me think that this is also something to do with X. > > My kdm desktop works fine. > > I'm still pretty new to Unix, so I want to be careful that I don't trash > my system again. Any helpful advice regarding this would be gratefully > appreciated. > > TIA > > G. > > oh, btw: apologies if this message comes through as (gack) html or > something - the mail client is still a little screwy as well. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message