[plug] K-word

[James Elliott]

My vidoe card is an S3 Virge Gx2 with 4 Mb RAM
My computer is an AMD K6 233 MHz with 256 Mb SDRAM

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
Tel:   08 9838 1043
Fax:  08 9838 1049
Cell:  0428 39 6052
E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
Australia Post:
PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] K-word


> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 00:10, James Elliott wrote:
> > This is the second time it has frozen my computer completely – I thought
> > only Windows was meant to do that, but it seems that Linux and K-Word
are a
> > deadly combination .... didn’t just crash K-Word, there was no mouse
> > pointer; no response to keyboard or to Ctrl+Alt+Delete and I had to
> > eventually press the Reset button on my computer case.
>
> Try Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace in X. If you have a LAN, try clocking on from
another
> machine with ssh (or PuTTY, from Windoze) and `killall X' followed by
> `killall -KILL X' if that does nothing.
>
> It sounds like you also have a dodgy X driver. What sort of card is it?
KWord
> has crashed only a couple of times for me (mind you, I don't use it very
> often) but never locked the display or machine in either of Mandrake 8.1
(on
> a laptop with a dodgy X driver) or Mandrake 8.2. WINE _is_ semi-broken on
8.2
> (it only runs on a few procesors because it was over-optimised) but the
copy
> in Cooker is fine.
>
> > The other thing K-Word does on an all too regular basis is to crash
itself,
> > thus losing to the user all unsaved  material in the document being
typed.
>
> > Well back to typing up my assignment .... but in StarOffice this time!
>
> StarOffice (and vim, for that matter) is better at journalling your
progress
> and recovering from total nastiness, at least on a journalled FS like
ext3.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>
>