----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Spradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [Newbie]Browser Question
> Troy Rau wrote: > > > I did some exploring of the files, and eventually found the folder where the > > Netscape went. I tried running the Netscape, but for some reason it would > > not run. It just acted like it was going to start, and then nothing would > > come up. It was the Netscape 4.75 that came on the FreeBSD CD. > > You must be trying to use KDE. See if you can get a shell prompt > (Kterm, maybe?) and just type "netscape &" and Enter, and see if that > won't launch it (the "&" tells it not to tie up the terminal). Yes, I am using the KDE desktop. I tried it from the shell, but not with the &, and still could get it to do nothing. I gave up on Netscape for the time being. > > As far as > > Rebooting goes, my logic there is that in Windows, some changes do not take > > effect untill you reboot. This applies to the installation of programs and > > devices. I do not know anything about UNIX, so I figured I would try the > > same thing with it just to see. > > You'll find it helpful to try to forget what you learned from Windows. > You should reboot your computer every six months or so, after you've > powered it down while you clean the dustpuppies out. 6 months? Wow!!. Is that not hard on the hardware? > > I did manage to install the Chimera web browser from the CD which is > > supposed to be html 3.2 compliant, but I still am having problems trying to > > download something, that if I go into Windows, I can d/l with no problems. > > It keeps telling me that it cannot open the file from the web to d/l it. > > Also, the Chimera browser, if it cannot open something, it locks up for the > > entire time it is trying to open it up, even though you hit the stop button. > > Chimera is a lot older than kfm, but it sounds to me you have network > problems. Can you reach anything in the outside world? Tell us a bit > about your network setup. Can you ping your default router? Anything > beyond it? I do not have much problem getting to the web page in UNIX, it is just in trying to download something such as another browser or program for UNIX. My network: I have 3 PC's running into a Linksys 4 port EtherFast Cable/DSL router, which is tied into a Toshiba PCX1000 Cable Modem, Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card. The only PC running UNIX is my EMachine 600 with 256 MB Ram, 16 MB Voodo3 vid card, CS8621 Soundcard(which I need to find vesa drivers for). I can browse the web using the kfm browser, but graphics are funky in that they flash in and out of view, also text box's do the same. If I try and d/l a .tgz file, it will try for a minute, and then come back and tell me it cannot open the file. If I go to Windows on the same PC, it d/l fine. > Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in > the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
