Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-04-01 Thread vern
This may be a bit too simple, but I do 90% of my "surfing" in KFM right there on the KDE desktop. Don't use Nutscrape much since about ver. 3.0 or so. It's gotten much too big and buggy. But then again I'm not a "power user" whatever that is. :-) Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Does an

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-31 Thread pwing
Does anybody have a solution to this? Any other recommended browsers? I hate the extended reboot where the filesystem autofixes itself ... "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > Brent Pathakis wrote: > > > If you do get stuck in X, you can always do a: > > ctrl-alt-backspace and it will usually send you

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-31 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Brent Pathakis wrote: > If you do get stuck in X, you can always do a: > ctrl-alt-backspace and it will usually send you back > to a command prompt. That is exactly the problem, the keyboard is not responding either -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland,

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-31 Thread Brent Pathakis
If you do get stuck in X, you can always do a: ctrl-alt-backspace and it will usually send you back to a command prompt. --- "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Potochnik wrote: > > > That seems like sorta it. It uses all of the > computer, not really hangs. > > In the "other"

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-31 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Mark Potochnik wrote: > That seems like sorta it. It uses all of the computer, not really hangs. > In the "other" O/S when it "hangs" nothing works, not even the mouse. > In "our" O/S when Netscape does it thing, you see the mouse curser, > move around, but you can't click on anything. > Sometine

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux - follow up

2000-03-29 Thread Herman R.willett
Hi: I had this same problem (actualy it happens often). The solution is to telnet in to the linux box that appeas to be hunk, then su ps -e | grep scape then after obtaining the process id for netscakp, issue a kill or kill -k After this, things return to normal on my linux box. He

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux - follow up

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Rial Juan wrote: > On Mar 29 Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > > > From what I can find a CRC error is Cyclic Redunancy Check but I have no > > clue what it means or what caused it. I can tell you that the machine > > has been up and running almost flawlessly 24/7 since October. > > I once knew the det

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux - follow up

2000-03-29 Thread Harold Hartley
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > I'm sure it's hung. Mouse is dead, can't Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, > Ctrl+Alt+Delete, can't change workspace nothin' > > I finally got home to check this thing out and man was this thing locked > up. Had the wife leave it on just so I could give it a bash (pun > intended

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-29 Thread James Murray
ay, March 28, 2000 12:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux > OK guys (and gals), > > I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using the recommended settings. > Hardware is as follows: > AMD K6-2 350 > 64M RAM > 10G & 30G Maxtor HD's > Motorola Bits

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux - follow up

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Dan wrote: > Are you sure the system is locked up? Try going into > Task Manager and killing ld-linux.so.2. This seems to > work for me. Netscape sometimes just locks up but the > system still works. (I have so far been unable to lock > the system under any situation.) It seems to happen > on

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Dan
Are you sure the system is locked up? Try going into Task Manager and killing ld-linux.so.2. This seems to work for me. Netscape sometimes just locks up but the system still works. (I have so far been unable to lock the system under any situation.) It seems to happen on pages with Java but not

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Ivan Stout
Yeah, Netscape is currently a bit shaky with Linux (at least as far as I know). Here is a site that just might help you out though: http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html --- "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK guys (and gals), > > I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using th

[newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
OK guys (and gals), I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using the recommended settings. Hardware is as follows: AMD K6-2 350 64M RAM 10G & 30G Maxtor HD's Motorola BitsurferPro ISDN modem Diamond Stealth III (s540) video card no-name 19" monitor Logitech rollerball type mou