Star Office 5 crash
It was not a problem of the X server... I tried to run it with the vga16
server but it crashed the same... It could be a problem with the S3
chip... now I installed and am running it using my old Cirrus Logic GD5434
card.
Kledi
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Computers are like air conditioners --- Stop working when open windows
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Tue Nov 10 1998 at 21:38, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
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>
> > (2) StarOffice 5 installation program crash
> > ===========================================
> >
> > I have (almost) given up trying to install SO5 (on my RH5.1/glibc6 box).
>
> > new cursor shape. From that point, everything freezes solid.
>
> Ah, ok, I did find (finally) some other messages that mention this... I'm
> running the XFree86 S3V server and it is a knowm problem with it.
>
> However, there is this point...
>
> > (1) X freeze
> > ============
> >
> > Is there an elegant way of regaining control of the keyboard when a X app
> > crashes (see below) and leaves the X console frozen and the keyboard in an
> > unusable state in raw mode?
> >
> > I have SAK (Secure Attention Key) mapped to Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen, but even
> > this didn't work (when it usually does). I ended up remotely logging in,
> > but still couldn't bring sanity to the console. So I had little choice but
> > to uncerimoniously issue a reboot command :-(
> >
> > Surely there is a better way of doing this?
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>
