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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X!
Date: 29 Oct 1996 15:56:44 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <5565js$fva@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net> <JOHN.96Oct25103021@burdell> <327691B1.41C67EA6@itdl.telecall.co.uk>
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In article <327691B1.41C67EA6@itdl.telecall.co.uk>,
Steve Roome <steve@itdl.telecall.co.uk> wrote:
>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...
>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 =) )
It's not a netscape problem, it's an X problem. I'm not sure how to
fix it, but i think that if you type "echo [CTRL-V][CTRL-O]" and hit
enter, it should solve the weirdness. Are you using sc0 or vt0 for
your console?
rone
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