From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 10 17:41:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14448 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Pkrw.tcn.net (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14443 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (krw@localhost) by Pkrw.tcn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00521 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:44:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Pkrw.tcn.net: krw owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:44:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Communicator 4.0b3 Java Problem solved 'startx -- -bpp 16'! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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