Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-10, gavin duley wrote:
> Howard Eisenberger wrote:
>> This is a general question. I have been unable to run iceweasel
>> on my ultra5 or ultra60 since it went from 2.0 to 3.0. It crashes
>> constantly with "Bus error".
>
> I've had a similar problem with iceweasel on my Ultra 5, apparently due
> to a futex bug:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/07/msg00130.html
>
>> I have been using iceape (currently version 1.1.14). Now I see
>> that iceape has been dropped from Lenny.
>>
>> I tried midori briefly on unstable, but it also crashed.
>>
>> Is anyone having more success in this regard on similar hardware?
>
> At the moment, I am using Epiphany. This is part of the GNOME project.
> It's not as sophisticated as iceweasel, but it does pretty much
> everything I need from a browser and works well.
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(browser)
Thanks for responding. I just tried Epiphany (the browser, not the
game) briefly and it also crashed on a problem page (ebay.ca), but
I will investigate further.
> Out of interest, have you had any problems with X11 on your Ultra 5? I
> find that unless I use the 2.6.22 kernel, X11 simply doesn't work. I'm
> running testing (which is probably almost identical to stable about
> now...) and have had no luck with the 2.6.24 or 2.6.26 kernels.
>
> http://lists.humbug.org.au/archives/general/2008-August/027088.html
As a matter of fact, I am also using 2.6.22 with testing on
this Ultra 5. With 2.6.25 X11 will not run.
Regards,
Howard E.
Ottawa
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