Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-14 Thread Adam Shand
> Ive got a winfast and when i was running the s3v server the system > locked up tight as a rock, ive switched to svga and no problem > installed fine. Wonder if that was also the reason that periodically i > would lose all response in X mouse would move but nothing would happen > ?? looks like t

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread John Stevenson
To all in Debian Land, I have successful installed and run Star Office 5, the only problem I had was downloading it in the first place I am using a fairly standard 'Hamm' install and running an external Xserver for my Neomagic videocard in my laptop. I have not had any real problems yet, bu

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:48:08AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > > I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice > > > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged > > > my partition somehow. Now its

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice > > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged > > my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working. > > which x server are you using? i'm in the pro

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > > I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > > > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > > > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. > > > I am running on a Pen

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged > my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working. which x server are you using? i'm in the process of converting from s3v to svga, and if it still

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Jens Ritter
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > has anyone else managed to get star office 5 to work? i've been eagerly > awaiting the official release of star office 5 because everytime i ran the > pre-release it would get to the welcome screen and then lock my entire X > display and i had to reboot to

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. > > damn, i'm running 2.0.35 with a diamond stealth 3d 2000 (

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Eric
Does the S3V one really perform better? I used to use it a long time ago, but I switched to SVGA because I heard that the S3V project was simply going to be incorporated into SVGA. On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:58:11PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > hmm you're running svga not the s3v server? i wond

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I've got it working with my Diamond Stealth 2000 with 4MB of RAM under > the SVGA X server. I doubt your problem has to do with lack of > hardware. hmm you're running svga not the s3v server? i wonder if that's it. i use the s3v one so i can get better resolution (i believe anyway), and now

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. damn, i'm running 2.0.35 with a diamond stealth 3d 2000 (4mb ram), on a pentium 200 with 96mb ram... so while