Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:26:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: G <G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems:FreeBSD2.2.8R/Netscape4.5 Message-ID: <36B6EEEA.F33E26C2@uk.radan.com> References: <36B6EABB.9398A2B3@Swansea.ac.uk>
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G wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I'm having a problem which is driving me bonkers. I've just upgraded to
> FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE (from 2.2.7) and to Netscape 4.5 (from 4.05). I
> had 'system now trashed' type problems doing this with cvsup, and
> eventually had to use a boot disk from www.freebsd.org to do a complete
> reinstallation.
>
> Anyhow, now uname -a outputs the following:
>
> FreeBSD cscall.swan.ac.uk 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Mon
> Nov 30 06:34:08 GMT 1998
> jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>
> My problem is that all the icons in Netscape are being displayed in
> black and white. There seems to be something wrong with the X system.
> I've tried lots of permutations in the XFree86 configuration in
> /stand/sysinstall, but to no avail. I can get the X server to start up
> ok, but it makes no difference to Netscape. I don't know if I have to
> reinstall it from the ports collection, or what.
>
What version of XFree86 are you running?. This problem was raised in
-questions a while ago and I'm pretty certain that you need XFree
3.3.3 to solve this (you could search the mailing lists). I'm running
2.2.8-R, XFree 3.3.3 and Communicator 4.5 and I have no problems.
HTH
> Another program that I run, xspect, now crashes, with an error message:
>
> Translation not implemented (bpp: 24; scrmul: 2)
>
> This is probably very program specific, but the 'translation' bit makes
> me think that this is also something to do with X.
>
> My kdm desktop works fine.
>
> I'm still pretty new to Unix, so I want to be careful that I don't trash
> my system again. Any helpful advice regarding this would be gratefully
> appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> G.
>
> oh, btw: apologies if this message comes through as (gack) html or
> something - the mail client is still a little screwy as well.
>
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