From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 10 3: 5:23 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 2842537B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 03:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADFE43E5E for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 03:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6AA5EMa074640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6AA5FFJ024288 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:16 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id g6AA5FLd024287; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:15 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:15 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Vahe Khachikyan Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting netscape to work on alpha Message-ID: <20020710100514.GT94279@cicely5.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <1026291538.3d2bf7525e737@vvl15.fh-konstanz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1026291538.3d2bf7525e737@vvl15.fh-konstanz.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely5.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:58:58AM +0200, Vahe Khachikyan wrote: > > 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. It is required by the osf module. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message