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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:09:24 -0400
From:      epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net>
To:        Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!
Message-ID:  <20041029190924.720a60dc@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20041029152928.K38850@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT)
Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote:

> At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like epilogue composed:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
> > Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > ...
> > > > > I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is
> > > > > actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed
> > > > > from ports.
> > > > >
> > > > > The whole background turns into a "negative" and so does the
> > > > > Mozilla browser.  All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla.
> > >
> > > I may go and install 4.10 and see what happens.  4.10 failed to
> > > install when the installation kernel hit the parallel port...
> > > Install/Kernel just wedged shut.
> >
> > have you considered installing moz via packages?
> 
> Hmm, actually no.  I was always feeling pretty safe using the
> "ports" system.  Aren't they the same packages?

it would be a quick way to test a binary that is 'supposed' to work. 
pehaps, you compiled your port with strange options (on the CLI or via
make.conf or even pkgtools.conf)

fwiw, trying a pkg is probably easier than reinstalling your system.

also, you might want cause the problem again, then check your /var/logs
to see if anything interesting shows up in either Xorg.0.log,
console.log, messages.log...

> 
> --
> Bill Schoolcraft           | Life's journey is not to arrive at the
> PO Box 210076              | grave safely in a well preserved body,
> San Francisco,CA 94121     | but rather to skid in sideways, totally
> http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling "holy shit, what a ride!"
> 
> 



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