Re: Mozilla on sparc
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Janine Restis wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Dewell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Web browsers (nowadays) are total pigs. If you have a really hot
> > > Ultra, it _might_ run acceptably. On a Sun4m, it's unusable, as
> > > you've noticed. Thank M$ and Netscape for all the bloatware that's
> > > ended up in there while they were assuming everyone has 1 Ghz
> > > processors.
> > >
> > > I'm waiting for Opera to be ported to Sparclinux before I do any
> > > browsing from my SS20 that doesn't involve lynx.
> > >
> > > Aaron
> >
> > Sorry, I forgot to mention that it worked before. I used Mozilla (it
> > wasn't the fastest, but well usable), then an update crashed my X. I
> > lived without X for about 2 weeks or so. Then I compiled X on my own
> > (without problems). Since then Mozilla was slow like hell.
>
> By any chance weren't you using XFree 3.3.x previously and now XFree86 4.x
> on cg6? That card is not accelerated in XF4 yet.
>
> Jakub
Nope. I've got a Creator 3D that's working fine. I never had problems
with it. But yes, I upgraded from XFree3.3.x to 4.x . But there was no
problem with the compile or so. Just the package didn't work (not
only for me, IIRC).
Janine
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