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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:14:24 -0400
From:      Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com>
To:        SysAdmin <flaq@synwork.com>
Cc:        Mark Mayo <mark@hi-fi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961005221341.518A-100000@why>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961005163409.25362A-100000@synwork.com>

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I used to run AccelX but gave up on it.  When i switched back to XFree
Java started to work again.  This is with Netscape 3.0

Andrew

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, SysAdmin wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Mark Mayo wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi all, I still haven't got Java working under Netscape 3.0 yet, and I
> > thought maybe somebody has already dealt with this problem.
> > 
> > First of all, I run the August 2.2-SNAP, on a PPRO 150, with a Matrox
> > Millenium video card. To get the Matrox working I bought the AcceleratedX
> > server from Xinside -- I think this may be the problem. When I hit a java
> > applet, the browser leaves space for the applet, but it never actually
> > displays. However, when I set my display over to my 486 win95 machine
> > (running eXceed 5) the java applets show up just fine... which pretty much
> > means my X server is the cause of my problems, no?
> > 
> > When I installed the AccelX server, I only had one problem - it couldn't
> > find libc.so.2.2 -> so I linked it to /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0. Everything
> > seemed fine.. the X server ran with no problems, and I was amazed at the
> > performance of AccelX!! Until it wouldn't show Java, that is  :-)
> > 
> > So, after it displayed on the PC, I grabbed the older libc.so.2.2 from the
> > 2.1.5 CD and threw it in /usr/lib. I rebooted and the system seemed to
> > come up fine. But still no Java -- plus, now when I display to the PC, I
> > don't get Java either, and the JDK appletviewer doesn't work.. 
> > So I quickly put the link from libc.so.2.2 -> lib.so.3.0 back and now I'm
> > back to the original problem.
> > 
> > I'm guessing it's some sort of clash between libc.so and the AccelX server
> > -- am I correct in assuming this?
> > 
> > Someone please tell me they've solver this problem and that I'm not a
> > random incident with no hope... I'm contacting Xinside as well, but I
> > believe they only support up to v2.1R.
> > 
> 
> It's starting to sound more and more like it is an AcceleratedX problem!
> 
> Mike
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