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 there

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 Pentium 233 with 64

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 process of

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 time to get

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,

star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
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 get things back under control (i could telnet

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

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 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

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 (4mb

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