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Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Toshiba laptop vga, 16 colors, SuSE, X and Netscape
- From: Marius.Augenstein@xxxxxxxxxx (Marius Augenstein)
- Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 14:32:26 +0200
- Message-id: <3552FB5A.A841EBCA@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hy Steve
Have you already tried the -noinstall option. If this don't work I can't
help you ... sorry :-(.
pwlwcz@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm having great fun with SuSE 5.1 on my Toshiba t1910cs laptop.
> It's a 486 sx w/ 12mb ram and a 16 color 640x480 vga display. I'm having
> problems with Navigator 3.04 however, that I don't understand. I am
> limited by my 200 mb hard drive so I installed only what I thought I
> really needed. I used YAST and made sure all dependencies were O.K. X
> works great-how does XV take a high color .jpg photo and manage to show
> it so well on a 16 color display??? XV is cool... Netscape on the other
> hand is having all kinds of trouble. I figured I would just start it
> with the "-mono" option, (this is kind of neat--try it) and let it just
> make do in black and white. When i start it I get a terrible long list
> of x-errors, failed requests mostly "BadDrawable", "invalid pixmap or
> window parameter" and "Bad gc" or something similar. It does finally
> open and it seems to function somewhat. The navigation buttons are tiny
> little things about 1mm square and there's no big "N" in the corner. I
> have used navigator with vga before, it wasn't pretty but I didn't get
> errors. I even dug out an old 2.02 version and tried that, it does the
> same stuff. Arena opens just fine and I can't really say that I've had
> trouble with anything other than Navigator. I only have 256k of video
> ram and 12mb of system ram and a 15+/- mb swap partition. Do I need to
> install some kind of mystery widget/pixmap package or is my laptop just
> incapable of feeding the big "N"? I tried loading with the "-install"
> option and "-ncols ..." all I get is a few x-errors ending in a big door
> slammin' bus error. Any ideas?
>
> Steve
>
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