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Re: Netscape kills linux

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From: Grahame M. Kelly
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
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Bek Oberin wrote:
> 
> In article <4mjhfl$obj@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, Hao He wrote:
> > Netscape has killed my pc running linux 1.3.20 for several
> > times already.  When it happened, everything was simply
> > freezed.  No reactions at all from the keyboard and the mouse.

Hi All,

Iam a user of Netscape on Linux and had not experienced any problems
other than my video card not supporting enought colours.
My kernel is RedHat 1.2.8 and Netscae 2.01.

I had to update my ld.so file as indicated below by David Segall.
>
You need to update your ld.so. I replaced mine with one from the
RedHat site
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-2.1/i386/updates/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.11-1.i386..rpm.
This fixed the problem. I imagine that this is no longer the latest
version but I am sure that any later version will fix your problem.
Regards, David.
David Segall                      davidsegall@acslink.net.au
>

Apart from this, the main problem experienced by most users is that
there video card is less than adequate.  My S3 card has some small
limitations (ie: 8 bit colour) so yours could be also restricted.

Additionally, I found that once I updated all the RedHat Errate
files all was well and has continued to be since April 8th.

Hope this helps, Cheers Grahame
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