Hi, I am having different problems with Netscape and LINUX in general.. When I am in the Netscape Mail (Netscape v 6.0) window, there is a frame on the left hand side that displays a list folders. If I try to resize that frame by making it wider, the screen doesn't redraw itself . It gets cluttered by a bunch of half drawn windows. I don't have this problem in Netscape 4.61. However, in this version of Netscape, when I try to set up my mail program to look at an IMAP server, and I unselect "Show only subscribed folders," and "Server supports folders with subfolders," Netscape just shuts down on me when I hit OK. When I try to bring up the Mailer again, it shuts down on me a second time. The window just closes. However, the third time I bring it up, it works. I haven't narrowed down the exact steps needed to reproduce this problem. It is different every times it happens. But it mainly happens when I play around with the two check boxes mentioned above. If I hold down the left mouse button and try to draw a box on the desktop. The box never goes away after I release the mouse button. Again, the screen is having problems redrawing itself. If I drag another window over that box and then drag that window away again the box disappears and the desktop looks clean. I am running a Dell XPS 500 mghz computer with 128 megabytes of RAM. I have 128 megabytes of swap configured. I am using a Nvidia RIVA128 adaptor in a resolution of 1152x864 in 32 bit color mode. For the longest time, I was running a resolution of 1024x762 in 8 bit color mode. I never had any graphic problems.
This is not an XFree86 problem. Sounds very much like a Netscape 6 problem. Netscape 6 is not a very stable application. I recommend using Mozilla M18 or a later version instead: http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/RH6/i386/... If Mozilla doesn't fix the problem, there is not likely much you can do until Netscape releases a fix. Personally, I'd use Mozilla (and I do), because the development of it is faster and will likely have more releases closer together that fix bugs than Netscape will.. That's all IMHO of course, your mileage may vary. If Mozilla doesn't work out for you, then I recommend using the latest Netscape version in our Errata for your distribution.