From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 13:02:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10190 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from neon.Glock.COM (neon.glock.com [198.82.228.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10176 Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:01:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by neon.Glock.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08607; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:01:29 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199603302101.QAA08607@neon.Glock.COM> Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0b2 - Problem Found! To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:01:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: macgyver@infinet.com, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, DARREND@novell.com, hackers@freebsd.org, dlacroix@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Mar 30, 96 03:36:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel writes: > On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Wilson MacGyver wrote: > > That's not true. My FreeBSD machine use a Tseng 4000 W32 in > > 1024x768 at 8 bit mode. The New Netscape works perfectly including > > the Java applets. > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > Darren are you running 8bpp? Anyone else running this successfully with > the XF86_S3 X server. > I can't imagine it's anything but the Xserver (or something that's > affecting the way my Xserver is performing). I've tried a netscape3.0 > back to my display from multiple systems with different OSes and have had > no luck. > Matt: Can you find out the details of the other system that failed to run > Java apps, please? Ok, from the person experiencing the problem, I found out that he's running XF86_S3. He has even tried the 3.1.2D server version with no luck. HOWEVER, running netscape from his machine displaying remotely to an 8bpp X Terminal (DEC) works fine! His roommate tried loading Accelerated X 1.3 at 8bpp on an ATI Mach64 card and got the same failures. Apparently there seems to be a message that comes up every time that the Java stuff fails: "can't allocate background color." Hope this information helps. -matt PS - I've added the owner of the other system to the CC list, please keep him in the loop as well. -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/