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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!mayonews.mayo.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!bone.think.com!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!interramp.com!usenet From: dcmyers@access.digex.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 3 and java Date: 11 May 1996 03:51:03 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Lines: 25 Sender: myers@freebsd.interramp.com (David C. Myers) Message-ID: <4n12r7$btc@usenet2.interramp.com> References: <DqwsAA.IxF@alisa.org> <3191E9B3.15FB7483@interbay.net.au> <Dr73w2.1M4@robkaos.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip206.san-francisco3.ca.interramp.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <Dr73w2.1M4@robkaos.ruhr.de>, robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) writes: > >It seems to depend what graphics board you have in your machine. >A friend who has an old ET4000 isn't able to see any Java applets, too. >At the university where he works he tried the following: >netscape 3 was started on >one machine and displayed (with xhost +) on two other machines: >On the machine with a S3 board, all applets look fine,on the one >with the ET4000 nothing, well not really nothing. You see some >gaps on the screen where the applet should appear. You get the >feeling that 'there is something', but you cant see it. :-( >It's a litte bit strange. Well, for what it's worth, I have an S3-based board (Diamond Stealth 2MB), and I get the empty-frame behavior with Netscape 3. That is, if it doesn't crash just after loading the applet... This is even after trying the obscure mkfontdir tip. FreeBSD 2.1R, 16MB RAM, Pentium 90, Asus M/B. -David