From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 09:21:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07834 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de [160.45.24.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07824 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Tue, 15 Jul 97 18:20 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id ; Tue, 15 Jul 97 18:20 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23731; Tue, 15 Jul 97 17:41:15 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9707151541.AA23731@wavehh.hanse.de> Subject: Re: Netscape-4. beta - please try this To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:41:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970715170820.60605@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jul 15, 97 05:08:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > 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. Sounds like the right direction, then. > Now you say, communicator 4.x chokes on this? Hmm. Cannot confirm. > > Netscape Communicator 4.0 > Preview Release 5 > > comes up fine. Aeh, comes up fine? Is this the Linux version? Actually, what I need to know is whether the BSDI version runs now, it doesn't without this FP mask. Anyone tried the BSDI version? Or did I misunderstand you? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36