Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:43:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>, Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>, "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86; Where to from here? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219164148.2068I-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.VUL.3.91.951219090544.12815B-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Chris Timmons wrote: > > I had a similar problem with netscape-2b1 when displaying on an NCD > x-terminal from a 2.0.5-R system. In my case there were things in the font > path that made netscape unhappy. Things worked fine with my xfree86 machine > at home, so if that's what you're running it may not necessarily be font > related. > I'm running 2.1-stable, with the XF312 Mach64 server on an ATI Mach64 4MB PCI Video card...v1.12 works nicely, only v2.x doesn't :( My first guess is that it has something to do with BSDi compatibilities in 2.1-stable are with pre-2.0, and netscape v2.x is post-2.0...plausible? > -Chris > > On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: > > > > > > > I've just installed XFree86 3.1.2. twm is the default setup. > > > > Can anyone here offer suggestions for other packages that may > > > > be of interest on a single user setup? > > > > > > try fvwm in place of twm. much nicer. > > > > > > netscape. xv. knews or netscape or some other X news reader. > > > > > Which netscape are you running? I've tried 2.0b3, and for > > some reason, I get nothing on the screen, altho the process remains > > running. v112 from ftp2.netscape.com seems to work fine... > > > > any recommendations on an X news reader? I've been sticking > > pretty much to text one in an xterm (trn) and wonder if I'm missing > > anything :) > > > > Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting > > scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > > soon to be: | | Information and > > scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc > > > Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc
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