Netscape 4.02/.04 and X11 Remote Lost data with Solaris_2.6
Everett F Batey II
Since I upgraded from Solaris 2.5 to 2.6 on my Sun_LX, 40MB Ram ...
1- Remote launched (set ... DISPLAY.back.here) netscape 3.x, 4.x
2- Local launched netscape 4.02 and 4.04 .. ALL
Load a page .. even the good html from Netscape.Com and All I see are
some image files, and the Blue_________ beneath the links ..
At the bottom of the page .. when I move mouse over links .. I see
the name of the link displayed at bottom .. Either the text is gone
or it has become the same color as the cell or page BG_Color ..
Sol 2.5 to Sol 2.6 was using "Upgrade" in the install .. I tried
changing in the Netscape Fonts and colors any param that looked like
a candidate for changing text color appearance .. NO LUCK..
Sure would appreciate some ideas .. video (dmesg) is cgsix0: screen
1280x1024, single buffered, 2M mappable, rev 8
I REALLY NEED A CLUE .,. thanks .. truly clueless /Ev/
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Dave Carrigan
>>>>> "Everett" == Everett F Batey <e...@cotdazr.org> writes:
Everett> Load a page .. even the good html from Netscape.Com and All
Everett> I see are some image files, and the Blue_________ beneath
Everett> the links ..
Everett> At the bottom of the page .. when I move mouse over links ..
Everett> I see the name of the link displayed at bottom .. Either the
Everett> text is gone or it has become the same color as the cell or
Everett> page BG_Color ..
I've been seeing this as well. It looks like the font renderer is
generating the fonts with no pixels set in them. You can mark a
selection and paste it into another buffer, so the text is there, the
font is just rendered invisibly. With Netscape, I've had success by
changing the default font in the Preferences dialog, or sometimes just
changing the font encoding under the View menu. It's easy to duplicate
the problem by changing the encoding. Eventually, you'll stumble on an
encoding that results in a page full of invisible text.
With a couple of pages, nothing I could do would result in a font that
got rendered correctly. I've seen the problem under both Solaris/x86
and Solaris/Sparc, version 2.6.
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Richard Skelton
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HiEverett,
You need to set :-
xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
xset fp rehash
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HiEverett,
<P>You need to set :-
<P>xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
<BR>xset fp rehash
<P>Everett F Batey II wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Since I upgraded from Solaris 2.5 to 2.6 on my Sun_LX,
40MB Ram ...
<P> 1- Remote launched (set ... DISPLAY.back.here) netscape 3.x,
4.x
<BR> 2- Local launched netscape 4.02 and 4.04 .. ALL
<P>Load a page .. even the good html from Netscape.Com and All I see are
<BR>some image files, and the Blue_________ beneath the links ..
<P>At the bottom of the page .. when I move mouse over links .. I see
<BR>the name of the link displayed at bottom .. Either the text is gone
<BR>or it has become the same color as the cell or page BG_Color ..
<P>Sol 2.5 to Sol 2.6 was using "Upgrade" in the install .. I tried
<BR>changing in the Netscape Fonts and colors any param that looked like
<BR>a candidate for changing text color appearance .. NO LUCK..
<P>Sure would appreciate some ideas .. video (dmesg) is cgsix0: screen
<BR>1280x1024, single buffered, 2M mappable, rev 8
<P>I REALLY NEED A CLUE .,. thanks .. truly clueless /Ev/
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Rob Henderson
In article <347CA5C1...@brake.demon.co.uk>,
Richard Skelton <ri...@brake.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>You need to set :-
>
>xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
>xset fp rehash
Note that you can do this globally for all users by
creating an executable /bin/ksh script named
/etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/0015.sun.env
with the following contents:
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#!/bin/ksh
#
# Hack to fix a font problem with netscape4 and solaris 2.6.
# /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ needs to be the first thing
# in the fontpath or netscape can't find some fonts.
#
if [ -f "/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir" ]
then
eval "$OPENWINHOME/bin/xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
fi
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