From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 19:14:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28492 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 19:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca (root@cicerone.uunet.ca [142.77.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28468; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 19:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from why.whine.com ([205.150.249.1]) by mail.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <115721-10577>; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:14:32 -0400 Received: from why (andrew@why [205.150.249.1]) by why.whine.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00930; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:14:24 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: SysAdmin cc: Mark Mayo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety > http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV > mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control > Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD > :|:|:|: Powered By FreeBSD :|:|:|: > Turning PC's Into Workstations > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ >