From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 08:06:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA02978 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA02967 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA24713; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:06:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA17572; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:08:21 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970715170820.60605@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:08:20 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Martin Cracauer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape-4. beta - please try this References: <9707141136.AA26298@wavehh.hanse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <9707141136.AA26298@wavehh.hanse.de>; from Martin Cracauer on Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 01:36:34PM +0200 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 01:36:34PM +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Could anyone else (I don't want to download the big beast and hate > Nav^H^H^HCommunicator anyway) try to run the Netscape version that > causes core dumps on FP exception on a FreeBSD kernel with > > #undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ > #define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ 0x127f > > at the end of /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h > > Take care that /usr/include/machine/npx.h stays the same. Then rebuild > and boot a kernel. Let me know about the results. > > Thanks > Martin At least it has the side effect that Netscape 3.01 (unknown-i386-bsd-3.01) doesn't do that floating exception anymore that it used to do notoriously when clicking the [Netsearch] button. I had totally refrained from pushing that button due to that 'bug' and got used typing in yahoo or altavista in the Netsite: edit field instead. With this 'patch' to npx.h it's working again. Now you say, communicator 4.x chokes on this? Hmm. Cannot confirm. Netscape Communicator 4.0 Preview Release 5 comes up fine. > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer > http://cracauer.cons.org > Fax +49 40 522 85 36 -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de