Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:44:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Communicator 4.0b3 Java Problem solved 'startx -- -bpp 16'! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970410203110.457A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>
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Another poke through the mail archives and a desparate look at an old message from last year and .... voila. The problem (my problem at least!) turns out to be a requirement that you be running X with >256 colours. The old message I found mentioned that an old netscape navigator blew up because it didn't have enough colour map entries to play with so I thought what the hell and finally buckled down and fixed my XF86Config to use 800x600 at bpp 16 instead of 1280x1024 at bpp 8, and summoned X with 'startx -- -bpp 16'. And suddenly Java pages and the Communicator Java console appeared without a floating point exception in sight! I hope this helps a few of the poor souls who shared the non-java purgatory with me! To summarize: I used the port to install, modified no files, copied the java files nowhere they weren't and with bpp = 8 got floating point exceptions but with bpp = 16 got none. ---- Ken
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