[svlug] netscape-dynam problems...

[Javilk]

> > > 	- verify and check if your hardware is compatible with linux
> > > 		( this will take you the longest time to verify....
> > > 		( do NOT Pass go, until you know exactly if your hardware is compatible
> 
> read and re-read and re-read the above line...
> 
> - if you do not see your video chipset listed in the linux hardware
> 	compatibility list....you ain't gonna get netscape to work on your linux boxes...

    The latter may be true; but we do have Linux itself running.  While
not a gracefully iced cake, it is a loaf of bread.  Putting icing on the
loaf won't look that nice... but is better than nothing.

    I suppose worst case would be to set up one of my other boxes as a
Win95 box and LANs/linux it to the notebook, using their monitor and keyboard.
Looks more awkward than it really is... and kind of backwards using a
notebook to serve a browser on a faster Win/95 mini-tower...

> - all other points would be moot...especially after you re-install linux
> 	from a clean "ORIGINAL" linux CDROM...

   But, given the same problem is on both Linux machines, I think there is
more to it than a clean install.  One curious point is the tilde at the
end of the name of the cache file in both error messages, which does not
exist on the names of the files on disk.

> > Which X systems are preferred?
> 
> XFree86-3.2 is fairly nice and stable and compatible wiht many many different
> systems and enviroments

    Didn't run last time on the desktop.  Heck that desktop wouldn't run
reliably with the Diamond Stealth card even on the Bios level 3 our of 4
cold starts would work.  So I swapped it out.

> >       3. Configuration files.  Yes, this is the more probable source of
> >      How do I know if the configuration files are right? 
> 
> if it is NOT working perfectly, for months at a time, you have a mis-configured
> option some place...
> 	I have linux boxes running flawlessly for 90+ days under light load...
> 	and with loads up to 12 for these corporate machines...
> 	- no crashes....unless "I fuck up"... or stupid cheap "scsi disks"
> 	that cannot reset and just hangs...

    Seems I have configuration problems on both machines then... BUT I
really want to rule out hardware first, so I'll pick up a diagnostics
program tomorrow. Which one do you recommend?


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