On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:58:05AM -0700, Viswanath P wrote:
> Hi LinuxUsers,
>
> I am using RedHat 7.1. Following are the problems
> which I encounter frequently. I don't know whether
> these are bugs or my ignorance. Kindly clarify me.
>
> 1.) Whenever I lock the screen and if it is idle
> for more time(5 hrs). then, the display becomes
> black and I could not see anything in my
> computer. I have to telnet to this machine quit
> and restart.
> I have tried to disable both the poweroff in the
> bios and also the screen saver but in vain.
What program are you using to lock the screen --- xscreensaver or xlock?
Which versions of those? As Schwaine pointed out on another thread, Red Hat
ships from broken xscreensaver modules with its version of Gnome.
> 3.) Whenever I start netscape it took around 4-5
> mins.
> to come to normal mode whereby one can type the
> webaddress to load. It stays idle for a while
> before coming to live. But, this does not
> happens
> with Konqueror or opera.
Netscape is, sadly, a program that has a lot of bugs. You might try upgrading
to the latest version is 4.78 available from
<ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.78/unix>. Good luck ---
I've had lots of frustration with Netscape.
--
Henry House
OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
PGP signature
