From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 26 0:43:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5562237B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA67140; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:43:17 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Craig Burgess Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape Message-ID: <20001026004317.B67073@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net> <14834.64948.277239.994151@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <39F3232A.C73A4F35@home.net> <20001022154819.E4742@dragon.nuxi.com> <39F79202.2A315F40@home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39F79202.2A315F40@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:08:02PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:08:02PM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote: > The list of netscape ports in /uar/ports/www all dated October 19 post > cvsup: > ============================================================= > bsdi-netscape47-communicator > bsdi-netscape47-communicator.us > bsdi-netscape47-navigator > bsdi-netscape47-navigator.us > linux-netscape4 > linux-netscape47-communicator > linux-netscape47-navigator > linux-netscape6 These are not going to work for you as they're i386-only. > netscape-remote > netscape-wrapper These two will work fine and are now required. > netscape3 > netscape3-gold > netscape4-communicator > netscape4-communicator.us > netscape4-navigator These are not going to work for you as they're i386-only. > netscape47-communicator.us > netscape47-navigator.us These two are dead now. > netscape47-communicator > netscape47-navigator Either of these is what you want to install. > ========================================== > > Script started on Mon Oct 23 14:18:26 2000 > Felix# make install > > >> communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.75/unix/supported/dec_unix40/complete_install/. > > Receiving communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.t (13580766 bytes): > 100% > 13580766 bytes transferred in 111.8 seconds (118.67 kBps) > ===> Extracting for netscape-communicator-4.75 > >> Checksum OK for communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz. ...snip... > ===> Returning to build of netscape-communicator-4.75 > ===> netscape-communicator-4.75 depends on shared library: X11.6 - > found > ===> Generating temporary packing list > This is the netscape web-surfboard. Please read the file > "/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms. > > Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root: > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > chmod 444 fonts.dir > And then exit and restart your X server. > ===> Registering installation for netscape-communicator-4.75 This is good. You got Netscape Communicator properly installed. > I removed the TRU64/v4 version and deinstalled the one installed from > ports, then reinstalled the port. It still works only with IP numbers. Does running ``nslookup'' work as expected? > Exiting Navigator (launched from a term window in X/KDE) leaves this > message: > > KCharset: Wrong charset! > > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct I always get this too. > ================================ > Installing XFree86 v4 appears not to be a viable option: I still use the XFree86 3.3.6 server on my Alphas. You might want to give it a shot. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/XF86336.alpha -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message