Subject: Re: do i keep NetBSD on this box?
To: netbsd-macppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/24/2005 22:41:41
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Hello,

> so, what is the XKeysymToKeycode stuff. that seems to be the culprit.
Probably - I'll check what it does here. Unfortunately my knowedge of 
lowlevel X11 stuff is rather limited so someone else should comment 
this :/

> it will be more useful to others if i can get a completely working 
> setup
> documented.  ;)
True :)

>> Konqueror works fine for me. If you have enough memory just let pkgsrc
>> build it - preferrably over night, KDE code is full of templates and
>> other things which slow the compiler down.
>
> does it have a different name in pkgsrc?  i can't find it.
It's part of the kdebase3 package in x11.

>> I've seen the same rendering errors in galeon, epiphany and Mozilla,
>> although in different degrees. The gtk1 variants seem to be less badly
>> screwed, firefox-gtk1 was sort of usable.
>
> see, that's the thing, the slightly older firefox was very usable on 
> 2.0
> for me (the weird lines on scrolling were the worst of it) and when i
> updated pkgsrc, firefox got worse, but was still usable.  then i 
> started
> using the -current kernel and it's become completely unusable.
I cannot really see how the kernel could trigger this rendering 
problems, but I never had working X on macppc with 2.0 either.

>> Too bad Opera for Linux/PowerPC doesn't work - the last few times I
>> tried it hung right after drawing the main window.
>
> i've always liked Opera, and in fact spearheaded the effort to get it
> ported to Solaris many years ago.  i should take a stab at that one
> of these days.
Hmm, it /should/ run on sparc64 in either Solaris or linux emulation... 
I guess I'll have to investigate when I find the time.

have fun
Michael
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