[SPARCbook] Netscape 4.73 under Solaris 2.6 final results (sort of...)

[Ken Hansen]

Thanks for the pointer - when I tried "conventional" search engines, every
link I found pointed to a "dynamic" patch library, where older revs are
replaced!

If I knew someone with the patch (to run MD5 against it) I'd just ask them
for the
patch ;^)

As for the idea that this may be a problem with the Weitek 9100 framebuffer,
I don't think so, but I am willing to be found wrong - it is just a feeling.
The driver
for the Weitek came from Tadpole, and they were selling it to clients that
wanted
their machines to work "right." The patch from Sun has a history of breaking
and
then fixing things (that's how you get up to Rev 34!). If it was Rev 3 or 4
that
caused the problem, and the patch didn't have a histroy of failures, I be
more
open minded about this I suppose. Besides, it is not that scrolling didn't
work,
it was that using the arrow keys that failed - PageUp and PageDown, scroll
arrows all worked fine.

I'll try the back-rev patch and report back, but things look OK without the
patch
right now...

Thanks for all your help,

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Canavan" <rainer at canavan.de>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Netscape 4.73 under Solaris 2.6 final results (sort
of...)


>
> >      Pointers on the above would be appreciated (getting an old patch or
> > opening a
> > ticket against a Solaris patch) - Bill, would these be useful additions
to
> > SunHelp.org?
>
> Finding old revisions is easy, try http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/ and search
> for e.g 105284-31. It turns up numerous "mirrors" of the sun patches
> server or copies of older sun patches CDs. You probably don't want to
> use them if you are paranoid, but someone from the list who has the patch
> on CD from sun could run md5 over the file for us.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a Solaris or a Netscape problem - it may even be
> a problem with the P9100 X-server from tadpole. Has anyone tried this
> with a "normal" SUN SPARCstation and, say GX graphics?
>
> Rainer
>
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