[SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris 2.6

[Ken Hansen]

That would be great...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Canavan" <canavan at cs.bonn.edu>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris
2.6


> > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >     I have installed Netscape Communicator 4.73 on my SPARCBook 3GX
> > >     running
> > > Solaris 2.6, but I am having a problem - when I call up a web site,
the
> > > initial screen appears fine, but if I scroll down, the display is
> > > jumbled.
> > >     By jumbled I mean, for example, the lines of text that were
> > >     previously covered up
> > > are now displaying a few times in succession,and sometimes over other
> > > lines. It is as if the CPU/display can not keep up with the scroll
> > > request and just tries it's best to "throw up" what it can.
> > >
> > >     There must be a usable version on Netscape around for
SPARC/Solaris,
> > >     does
> > > anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Ity seems that netscape 4.73 does have this behaviour if it is short on
> > memory. It does this on W95 as well if memory runs short.
> >
> > Hugo.
>
> Ok, just if anyone still cares: It's something from the 2.6_Recommended
> Patchset that breaks Netscape. 4.73 works fine with bare Solaris 2.6 or
> the tadpole patches installed, but shows the scrolling problem as soon
> as the Recommended Patchset is installed. I'll try backing out the patches
> one by one when I get home today...
>
> Rainer
>
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