X and netscape

Hi Well i finally got X to wor on one of my other machines but when i load kde and then bring netscape up when i oad an webpage seems that it doesnt load the graphics it seem at one time it was looking for XV i install that and still didnt do anything it also when netscape first comes up it complains about the background and to use -visual to start netscape not sure what this is can anyone give me some ideas what to try thanks in advance Bob