Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:08:27 +0000 From: G <G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X problems:FreeBSD2.2.8R/Netscape4.5 Message-ID: <36B6EABB.9398A2B3@Swansea.ac.uk>
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Hi All. I'm having a problem which is driving me bonkers. I've just upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE (from 2.2.7) and to Netscape 4.5 (from 4.05). I had 'system now trashed' type problems doing this with cvsup, and eventually had to use a boot disk from www.freebsd.org to do a complete reinstallation. Anyhow, now uname -a outputs the following: FreeBSD cscall.swan.ac.uk 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 30 06:34:08 GMT 1998 jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 My problem is that all the icons in Netscape are being displayed in black and white. There seems to be something wrong with the X system. I've tried lots of permutations in the XFree86 configuration in /stand/sysinstall, but to no avail. I can get the X server to start up ok, but it makes no difference to Netscape. I don't know if I have to reinstall it from the ports collection, or what. Another program that I run, xspect, now crashes, with an error message: Translation not implemented (bpp: 24; scrmul: 2) This is probably very program specific, but the 'translation' bit makes me think that this is also something to do with X. My kdm desktop works fine. I'm still pretty new to Unix, so I want to be careful that I don't trash my system again. Any helpful advice regarding this would be gratefully appreciated. TIA G. oh, btw: apologies if this message comes through as (gack) html or something - the mail client is still a little screwy as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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