Re: Rapid beeps and system lock up

2000-09-23 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ross Boylan, > Thank you. I was running sawfish. Shouldn't the installation > procedure have some kind of warning? I see there's another update, > so this will be my chance to get it right. I think it's a bug, but I haven't got around to filing a bug report (I'm not entirely certain how

Re: Rapid beeps and system lock up

2000-09-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you. I was running sawfish. Shouldn't the installation procedure have some kind of warning? I see there's another update, so this will be my chance to get it right. I have two questions. First, what is the SYSREQ key (I have a MS Natural keyboard--windows oriented)? Second, how do I ge

Re: Rapid beeps and system lock up

2000-09-22 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Ross, I have certainly experienced the beeping, but I don't recall ever having had my computer lock because of it. I'm pretty sure that it's because sawfish/sawmill doesn't like to be upgraded while it's running (at least, for the helix-gnome packages). Generally Bad Things happen, of which th

Rapid beeps and system lock up

2000-09-22 Thread Ross Boylan
A little earlier this evening I did an apt-get upgrade, which picked up about 6 packages. I am getting them from potato and helix-gnome, so probably they came from the latter. I came back well after everything had finished; it all looked OK. I dial up. But when I tried to switch windows, I cou