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From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: JAVA & NETSCAPE BUGS?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:22:41 +0000
Organization: Nortel Technology ( formerly Bell-Northern Research )
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Arne Norre Ekstroem wrote:
> 
> In article <32BC1868.167EB0E7@polly.phys.msu.su>, Alexei Persianov <pers@polly.phys.msu.su> writes:
> 
> Netscape will NOT show java if you are using 16bpp in your X-server.
> Maybe this is the problem?
> It will work fine if you are using 8bpp.....

I use 16bpp, netscape 3.01 and run java applets, no problem.

The only troubles I've had are with the FreeBSD-native port of the
1.02 JDK. the java 'appletviewer' can't seem to handle 16bpp. 
My guess is that the 1.02 JDK doesn't support 16bit color for the
appletviewer.

Actually, the other bit of grief that I ran into w.r.t. the native
JDK, and Kaffe as well are that both use the CLASSPATH environment
variable to point to their zipped class libraries. This confuses 
netscape which expects it to point to java_301 ( its own zipped class
library ).


Hope this helps,,

Andrew.
( Ho-ho-ho! Opinions are mine not those of Nortel. Ho-ho-ho! )