[SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris 2.6

[Rainer Canavan]

> 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.

I don't think so. This would have to be RAM then, because I have 256MB of
swap on top of the 64MB RAM, and believe me, there's plenty left even after
I start Netscape. The same does not happen with Solaris 2.5.1 with _much_
less swap (same Netscape 4.73, runs rock solid on 2.5.1). I only tried 
with 32 bpp so far, because with 16bpp the X server seems to be pretty
unstable.


Rainer