[SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris2.6

[Ken Hansen]

I choose to ignore this note (not understanding what it means ;^), but I am
at a loss as to where this change would go - here is my directory structure:

(From my SPARCBook)
$ pwd
/export/home/ken/.dt/sessions
$ ls
current         current.old     dtwmfp.session  lastsession
$ ls *
dtwmfp.session  lastsession

current:
dt.resources  dt.session    dt.settings

current.old:
dt.resources  dt.session    dt.settings

(end directory structure)

So, where should these lines go? current/dt.session? current/dt.settings? or
current/dt.resources? (BTW, none of these files have permissions of 755)

Also, my previous problem (which appears *fixed* by the removal of the
previously mentioned patch) was not in the rendering of the fonts, but in
the
scrolling of the page - I guess it could be related, but I didn't see it
that way
when we first started working on this issue...

Thanks,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: <Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris2.6


> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Rainer Canavan wrote:
>
> > OK, I've found the guilty one: It's 105284-33 Motif 1.2.7: Runtime
library
> > patch. I can install/uninstall it, and the display problems come and go
> > away. All other patches from both Tadpole and Solaris 2.6 are installed.
> > Now, the question is: is this a Netscape, Tadpole, or Solaris bug?
> > I don't know what version of motif Netscape was originally linked
> > against, but that's most probably be something from Solaris 2.5.1. It's
also
> > interesting to see that some people seem to have this problem, and
others
> > not.  What versions of 105284 do you have installed?
>
> How about the text from the release notes? It states:
>
> Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, and 2.6:
>           The Solaris 2.4 Communicator is dynamically linked with the X
and
>           Motif libraries. If the Motif dynamic libraries are not properly
>           installed, Communicator will exit with this error:
>
>           ld.so.1: netscape: fatal: libXm.so.3: can't open file: errno=2
>
>           Installing Motif dynamic libraries will get Communicator
working.
>
>           If Communicator exits on Solaris 2.5.1 with a message similar to
the
>           above saying that it can't open libresolv.so.2, you will need to
>           install Sun patch 103663 (for SPARC) or 103664 (for x86).
>
>           If you have problems running the Solaris 2.4 (SPARC) executable
on
>           Solaris 2.5.1, a native Solaris 2.5.1 version is available which
>           may solve the problems.
>
>           On Solaris 2.6, you may experience problems with fonts not
>           rendering properly.  To fix this, add the following lines to
your
>           $HOME/.xinitrc file:
>
>               xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
>               xset fp rehash
>
>           CDE users on 2.6 will need to add the first of the two lines
above
>           to their $HOME/.dt/sessions/sessionetc (be sure the permissions
on
>           this file are 755), then exit and restart.
>
> Awkwardly enough it makes me think I need the solaris 2.4 binaries and not
> the solaris 2.5.1 binaries on a solaris 2.6 system. How ever it does not
> make sense to me at all.
>
> Hugo.
>
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