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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
