Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:11:33 -0800 From: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape Message-ID: <3A004EC5.63EF3F64@home.net> 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> <20001026004317.B67073@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: [stuff trimmed] > > 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 [more trimmed] > > ===> 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? Yes - at the console and in a terminal window in X nslookup works. > > 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 Actually, 3.3.6 was my only choice - 4.x consistently went in the toilet. FWIW, I also discovered that Java is broken as far as Netscape is concerned. Visiting www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1 should set up the browser to run a Java applet (speed test) but Netscape 4.75 on the Alpha says it cannot (so something) with the background color and fails to load the applet. Since the Alpha is primarily sitting here as an educational tool for me, serving a web page and running natd, it's not really critical that any of the other stuff works, but it seems to be a waste of resources ... > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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