According to MUO, Netscape doesn't like 24bpp. I tried
it, it came out bw. at 16bpp and 32bpp it looks fine.
Now, if I can just get over expecting it to act like
IE...
--- "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully.
> With the
> RedHat/Mandrake Netscape wrapper script I've had the
> most stable
> Netscape since the 2.0 days. I mean that puppy is
> *stable* now.
>
> And the icons are in all those goofy colors that
> they are supposed to
> be in. What are you talking about with B&W?
>
> Do you have a low color depth set, perhaps?
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | I feel like a AOL user few years ago, but I can
> resist to add my 'me
> | too!' to this. At first, I found Mandrake 7 to be
> a definitively hot
> | linux release. But all the little glitch here and
> there also made me
> | install back Mandrake 6. And I'm wondering if Red
> Hat 6.2 won't be ok,
> | after all...
> |
> | Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape
> on Linux is
> | definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, -
> apologize -, MSIE. So
> | please, fix that kind of misbehaving B&W look 'n'
> feel and the kind of
> | bugs : it's hard to advocated Linux vs. Win2K in
> that kind of context...
> | ;o)
> |
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | Trevor Farrell wrote:
> | >
> | > When I first installed it, I really liked Mdk
> 7.0-2 - real nifty new
> | > installer, supermount, XFree3.3.6, the first
> graphical install to work
> | > with my SiS 6326 chip, ... Yes, I thought it was
> really nice. Then the
> | > cracks started to appear - sound card that
> worked under Ver 6 wouldn't
> | > install under 7, Netscape had yucky b&w icons,
> cd burner not linked
> | > properly, and wouldn't burn when it was, wheel
> mouse that wheeled
> | > without help under 6 didn't under 7,
> partitioning tool buggy, expert
> | > install option absolutely unusable - how the
> hell do you know what is
> | > selected and what isn't? - the "magic 50%"
> install rule - it only fills
> | > your partition to 50%, regardless of what you
> really wanted, ...
> | >
> | > Now, weeks later, some of the above are fixed
> and some aren't, but I put
> | > it down to my "el cheapo" buying - PCchips
> motherboard, ide cdrw, etc
> | > and lack of knowledge/skill - ie my fault...
> | >
> | > Today, I feel differently. We have had a Mdk 6
> machine at work for
> | > some time, and its supervisor today decided to
> install 7.0-2 . He
> | > started by booting from a boot floppy, the
> install locked when it tried
> | > to initialize the CD. So I suggested that he set
> the BIOS to boot from
> | > CD (it was previously set to boot from the
> floppy, then the ide drive.)
> | > and this time the install went nicely, until he
> hit the expert select
> | > packages fiasco - he couldn't make any more
> sense of it than I could -
> | > so he cancelled that and started again, this
> time being careful not to
> | > select expert! It loaded the packages (why is
> Mandrake so slow doing
> | > this, compared to red hat?) and then locked up
> as it started the X
> | > configuration. Rebooted the machine, everything
> started up well, but no
> | > X. At this stage my colleague threw the ver 7 cd
> in the bin, and will be
> | > putting 6 back on the machine next week. (No -
> he doesn't want to know
> | > how to fix it, or what went wrong.)
> | >
> | > Also today, I installed the BeOS 5 (Personal
> Edition) operating system
> | > that I downloaded last night. It really just
> unpacked the files. I
> | > rebooted the machine, and hey! presto ... BeOS!
> Funny, video worked,
> | > sound worked, Cdrw burnt cd's, ... all with NO
> installation questions,
> | > NO how-to's, No hassles. OK - so there is
> nothing written for BeOS yet,
> | > and I'm not serious about keeping it, just
> curious, BUT, it proved you
> | > can write a hassle free installer THAT WORKS!
> | >
> | > OK - back to Linux - the current attitude that
> if something didn't work,
> | > it's because you didn't read the instructions or
> your hardware is faulty
> | > IS SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE to me any more - If it
> doesn't work FIRST TIME
> | > it's because its broken, and needs fixing.
> | >
> | > The first Linux distribution that produces a
> hassle free installer that
> | > works (no if's, but's, or maybe's - I mean works
> - full stop!)
> | > WILL SUCCEED, all the rest will only be
> installed by enthusiasts (which
> | > I still count myself among) and are doomed to
> their rightful resting
> | > place in the garbage bin.
> | >
> | > Now, it's time for my big decision - Do I, like
> my colleague, consign
> | > the Ver 7 install I have spent so much time on
> to oblivion, and go back
> | > to Ver 6 because it worked, or do I persevere,
> and try to get 7 up and
> | > running properly, or, perhaps, do I try RedHat
> 6.2, or just wait for a
> | > distro with kernel 2.4 & XFree 4? I really don't
> know, and I really
> | > don't expect anyone else to decide for me, I
> just know that my
> | > perceptions of install problems will never be
> the same again.
> --
> "Brian, the man from babbleon-on"
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Brian T. Schellenberger
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