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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU (Mark O'Lear)
Cc:        flaq@synwork.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 3.0 release
Message-ID:  <199610031732.KAA09866@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3253E478.3485@Colorado.EDU> from "Mark O'Lear" at Oct 3, 96 10:06:17 am

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	do you have to use 3.0 release version of netscape?

	3.0b7 and java work beautifully.  i recently posted a detailed 
	setup message.   which i cant find right now <grrr...> ;(

jmb


Mark O'Lear wrote:
> 
> I have also been through every suggested step to get Java working
> with no luck either.  The interesting thing is that it seems
> to be dependent on which display I display it on, not which computer
> I run it on.  If I run it from Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris and display
> it on my display (FreeBSD), it does not do Java.  If I run it from
> FreeBSD and display it on the Linux or Solaris display, it works just
> fine. The Linux box and FreeBSD box have different graphics cards,
> but the same resolution (16 bpp - actually one Linux box has 8 bpp
> and the other has 16bpp and both work fine).  Basically every version
> works when displayed on the Linux or Solaris boxes, but no version
> works when displayed on my FreeBSD box.  The only differences
> between these systems (working and not working) is the
> graphics card.  Also the FreeBSD box doesn't have the
> Multi-Buffering X11 extension, while all the other systems do.
> -- 
> Mark O'Lear             \    e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU
> University of Colorado   \   phone:  (303) 492-3798
> Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313)  \  fax:    (303) 492-5105
> Boulder, CO  80309         \
> 




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