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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!visint.demon.co.uk From: Steve Roome <steve@itdl.telecall.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X! Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:25:36 +0000 Organization: Vision Interactive Lines: 23 Message-ID: <327691B1.41C67EA6@itdl.telecall.co.uk> References: <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net> <JOHN.96Oct25103021@burdell> NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Galbraith wrote: [[SNIP..]] > I am using one that I downloaded called > netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-bsd.tar.gz and it works great for me, > using the same FreeBSD version an you. You might try that one... > > John Interesting, I'm running XFree86 3.1.2 G (latest beta version) and the same version of netscape, and it doesn't work quite right for me yet =( Every time I use netscape under X, and then exit out of X completely I've got some sort of martian keymapping going on. The actual letters come out all wrong as well. Very strange. I reckon netscape is perhaps not the best quality software the world has to offer at the moment, or maybe it's a beta version again (but they forgot to tell us this time =) ) Strange, I think I'll use lynx from now on =) Steve