From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 10 1:47:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E8537B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vvl15.fh-konstanz.de (vvl15.fh-konstanz.de [141.37.112.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E36543E65 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:47:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vahe@fh-konstanz.de) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by vvl15.fh-konstanz.de (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g6A8x1329585 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:59:01 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from vahe@fh-konstanz.de) X-Authentication-Warning: vvl15.fh-konstanz.de: nobody set sender to vahe@fh-konstanz.de using -f To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting netscape to work on alpha Message-ID: <1026291538.3d2bf7525e737@vvl15.fh-konstanz.de> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:58:58 +0200 (MEST) From: Vahe Khachikyan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 194.138.37.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You should set osf1_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf Description: Each time you install the software it loads the OSF compatibility module automatically. It is ok untill you reboot the system. After reboot the OSF module will not be loaded automatically during the startup, if the flag above isn't set in /etc/rc.conf Loader tries to load the Netscape binary and there is no corresponding kernel module which is responsible for OSF1 binaries. Loader falls back to it's default /bin/sh, and tries to execute the netscape binary as a shell script. That's it you get the strange ASCII output :-) BTW: I don't think that linux module is required for netscape. -- Vahe --- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Lentfer" To: "Bryan Dina" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Getting netscape to work on alpha > Bryan Dina schrieb: > > >I have installed netscape-4.78 on FreeBSD 4.5, and when I reboot or restart > >the machine netscape dies. When I run the binary, I get a bunch or ASCII > >chars, and the machine beeps once. Once I rebuild netscape, it will work > >until I reboot or reinstall again. The box is a DEC AlphaStation 200 4/166 > >stock config. Any ideas? > > > > > Do you have OSF1 and LINUX modules loaded? > > Jan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message