Bug 1588
| Summary: | Kern3l 2.2 Frame Buffering vs. Netscape | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bob Houghton <bob> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | bob.houghton@hssltd.com | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-07-08 16:30:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bob Houghton
1999-03-17 21:14:44 UTC
Has anyone approached this problem? It will sure to be a big issue shortly. DKL, I have about 2500 installs that need this to work. Have you heard anything???? I haven't been able to duplicate it here. Is there a specific web site you can point me to that causes it to die? I can get it to crash by selecting the Java console from the netscape menu's. [Communicator->tools->Java Console] I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.5, and I am using Communicator 4.5. I used the instructions at www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee to setup for Frame Buffering, and the instructions at www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade-5.html for the kernel 2.2.5 install. The machine I have been working with is an IBM 300GL. The video chipset is the S3 Trio 3D (86C366), which explains why I am trying to do frame buffering, i.e., no suitable X-Window drivers I know of. Everything else seems to work flawlessly using frame buffer. It seems to only affect Java within netscape. When I installed another video card, and turned off frame buffering, it worked fine even with the same kernel image. I can not remember if I tried this on a different machine. If you like, I can give it a try on a different piece of hardware. I tried this on an Acer box with a different chip. Running off of a normal X-Window driver, it worked. With Frame Buffering, everything worked until Netscape called a Java function. I've been told that Caldera has promised to find a solution for us. I'll keep you updated. Thanks -- Bob How many bpp are you running at? Also, are you running XF86_Xvfb on top of the frame buffer, or with a standard server? I am running something called XF68_FBDev I downloaded from www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee. I am using "VGA=791" in my lilo prompt, which is indicated in www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/files/vesafb.txt to be 65,536 colors at 1024x768. Do me a favor, and send me a copy of your driver and XF86Config file, for it might be wise to rule out problems with the code I am using. Also, what version of Netscape are you using? I am using version 4.5 downloaded from the Netscape web site for the 2.0 kernel; there is none for the 2.2 kernel. What I've been testing on is the following: kernel-2.2.5 Matrox Millenium using matroxfb XF86_FBDev from the 3.3.3.1 release Netscape 4.51 (glibc-2.0 version) Are you using the glibc or libc5 version of Netscape? (Running ldd on it will tell you; if a libc.so.5 shows up at all, it's the libc5 version.) Also, are you running with a font server or with a local font path? If so, what is the font path set to? |