From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 21:06:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA07586 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [207.67.176.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07544; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by covina.lightside.com (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26386; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Andrew Herdman cc: SysAdmin , 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 On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Andrew Herdman wrote: > 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 Hmm, I think I know one possible cause of this problem. I used to have the same problem getting Java to work in Netscape (blank space for applets), this time I installed Netscape from the port (instead of manually) and received the following message: Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir chmod 444 fonts.dir And then exit and restart your X server. I tried that, and lo and behold, it worked! It seems that Netscape needs particular font aliases that for some reason XFree86 didn't define properly. Mkfontdir fixed the problem for XFree86, perhaps it can help Accelerated-X? -- Jake