Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1746 mails)

[adcarlso@xxxxxxxxxx (Arlen Carlson)]

On 05-Apr-99 MongrZ wrote:
> 
> Well...here is theory two:
> All the programmers at Netscape use Matrox boards!
> Since Benjamin and I both have Matrox boards...and neither have any problems.
>:-)

I have had problems with Netscape...and I am running a Matrox board.  Problem
is not video related, I guess.

> 
> However I'm now using a Riva TNT.....with no diffuculties thus far.  It's not
> that I'm not pushing Netscape as hard as the next guy.....I do alot of
> surfing
> and the browser is open for hours at a time.
> 
> Rick Thompson
> 
> Ralph Clark wrote:
> 
>> Rick Thompson wrote:
>>
>> > You're not special ;-)
>> > I too have been using Netscape for browsing/email for quite some time. I
>> > do
>> > get occasional crashes to to runaway java crap....but by and large it
>> > works
>> > reliably. I too only install using the files on Netscape ftp site. I think
>> > your theory on hardware (specifically the video adapter) is probably dead
>> > on. I've always used top notch hardware (especially video) and maybe
>> > that's
>> > why we don't have the problems most other people seem to be having. How
>> > about an impromptu hardware survey from you guys with the problems?
>>
>> It's not the video hardware. I've had the same problems with all
>> Communicator
>> 4.x using an ancient S3 5426 board, an ancient ET4000, an ATI Mach 64
>> Xpert@Play AGP and an STB Velocity 128 AGP (Nvidia Riva). That's on
>> Linux-FT,
> 
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