From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 14:06:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29767 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29754 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:06:23 GMT (envelope-from suleyman@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (suleyman@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA23752; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:06:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thanks to all: Netscape & XFree86 OK In-Reply-To: <199804181140.EAA19436@foo.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: > > >Thanks, everybody for your help. > > >I downloaded the latest XFree86 from XFree86.org, and downloaded the > >current Netscape4 port from FreeBSD.org, re-built the kernel to use > >SYSVSM, and installed. > > >Everything is up and running. Netscape doesn't look as nice as it does on > >Windows95, but I hope to be able to fix that soon. > > By "not as nice", do you mean > > (a) graphics are not as nice, they are dithered when Win95 was pure colors, or mostly this. > > (b) the interface is not as nice; it looks weird. > a bit of this too. > If (a), the place to start with is probably your XF86 config; try to > get an accelerated server and a greater # of bits per pixel. I started XF86 at 16 bpp and then ran netscpae, graphics and images looked much better. Having netscape start up in a window bigger than my screen is a bit annoying. That must be an XF86 thing. One problem I still have is the quality of smaller typefaces (), either I am not at the optimal resolution (1024 x 768), another XF86 thing, or I don't have the fonts under control (netscape thing) I opted not to download the Chinese and Cyrilic fonts. I suspect that this is a resolution problem. Is reading the error log the way to tell what resolution I am in? Are the netsape README and RELNOTES the only documentation for the netscape release? > > If (b), you may have to download the source and start hacking. > Meanwhile, console yourself by clicking with the middle mouse button > on links (the #1 advantage of the Unix versions of NS). hacking source and recompiling can be rather time-consuming, I think I'll save that for when I am a little more up to speed with all of this. The middle mouse button, was just what I was looking for. When I double clicked on a download link, I got an ascii download of binary garbage on my netscape screen. The middle mouse button, prompts me for a directory, in which to download. I hate to think how long it would have taken me to find this by trial and error. > > Hope this helps... Great help, thanks loads. > bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message