Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:50:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: mjblais@miranda.com (Marie-Josee Blais) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with netscape 4.5 and fonts Message-ID: <199903101950.OAA01941@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199903101827.NAA12802@norton.miranda.com> from Marie-Josee Blais at "Mar 10, 99 01:24:20 pm"
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Marie-Josee Blais wrote, > Hello I've just installed Netscape 4.5 on FreeBSD 2.2.7 and when I try to > start it up it gives me this error. > > no recognized font charsets! > > I'm actually running netscape remotely with Exceed 5.0. > > I've then tried to run these commands that were suggested at the end of the > install but I still get the same message. > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > chmod 444 fonts.dir This won't do you any good. The fonts are not being found on your local machine, the one running Exceed. > Netscape 3.0 works fine. Switching between versions of Netscape can have odd effects on your .netscape files. I run 3.01 on my FreeBSD machine and 4.<mumble> on my SGI. My bookmarks file has been cleared more than once after switching between them. > I can't run netscape locally because my mouse > isn't setup in the configuration menu at boot up and shutting down at the > time is not an option. I still tried to execute netscape and even before > it complains that X isn't running it gives me yet again . . . I do not understand what you are saying here. When you say 'locally' are you now talking about sitting at the 2.2.7 machine? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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