Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 FREEZES my machine
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 18:18:07 MDT
Hmm....I'd agree with you completely, but it just now started doing it, earlier
this week. It worked fine before (other than the occational crash, but nothing
that froze the machine).
Does anyone know if I can DL just the latest version
of Netscape Navigator, not Communicator, for PPC Linux? I don't need all the
fancy stuff of Communicator. I use kmail for mail, and slrn for news.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> i'd suggest a new kernel... i'm running
> YellowDog CS 1.2 on kernel 2.2.15pre20
> on: BlueG3 400 DVD with 192M of RAM
> netscape hasn't recently brought the entire system
> down... but it has in the past when i was running
> older software like a old kernel and such. try that...
> if you want you can try my compiled kernel i use, it
> has no support for anything besides what my comptuer
> has tho... ie no floppy or anything. not sure about
> modem or anything. but i turn most of the SCSI/IDE
> floppy and such... only rage128 support too.
> -Jeremy
>
> --- Robert Fout <rfout@damien.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been using Netscape 4.7 for about a month now.
> > Just recently it has
> > started to sometimes lock the whole machine up,
> > right when you go to a webpage.
> > The mouse won't move, can't switch to another
> > virtual desktop, can't switch to
> > a VT, can do a thing but hit the power button and
> > let fsck do it's work. Has
> > anyone else had this same problem.? I'm using YDL CS
> > 1.1 (Kernel 2.2.6) on a
> > B&W G3/400/128 MB, booting off a 2 GB partition on
> > the internal IBM IDE HD.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------
> > "The knack to flying is learning how to
> > throw yourself at the ground and miss."
> >
> > From "Life the Universe and Everything"
> > by Douglas Adams
> >
> > Robert Fout
> > MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
> > rfout@damien.edu
> > http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
> > ICQ# 48433406
>
> =====
> Jeremy T. Knope <jerome@knopej1.umeres.maine.edu>
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Robert Fout MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User rfout@damien.edu http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/ ICQ# 48433406
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