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- To: Daniel Mashao <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: star office
- From: Shawn Nguyen <shawnnguyen@prodigy.net>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:17:45 -1000
- Message-id: <370347C9.3EFCFE9@prodigy.net>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903311250001.31488-100000@vitasat.ee.uct.ac.za>
I just have a question. I used the SVGA server but X frozed on me. Do I have to set that line down below in order for it to not freeze? The weird thing is that when I use the S3 server it doesn't freeze X, it only freezes StarOffice. So I went back to my S3 server. Also, I discovered that using the SVGA server I could only use 8bpp color in X. Meanwhile I am using 32bpp in my S3 server, is this correct if you use SVGA??? If so, I don't know that I would want to use SVGA since it deprecate my color by so much. In the meantime I am able to use StarOffice, however, I can't use mail, that's all that's wrong with it. I can use everything else as far as I can tell anyway. Maybe I should try their fix. Has anyone experienced anything weird when using this fix with their S3 server??? Any advice would be appreciated. Shawn Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > > > I am using an S3 graphics card. I guess I'm out of luck huh? Thanks for > > the info though even though I find it kind of strange that that would be > > the case. I guess I should do some research to see if there's any kind of > > fix for this problem. > No you are not out of luck. There are two things you can do. Both of them > easy. > > 1. Use the SVGA drivers instead of the S3 drivers for X11. > > 2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of > .bashrc. > > setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true > > or > > export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true > > and everything will be fine. How do I know, because they mentioned this > some where in their installation documentation and I too have an S3 Virge > card. > You will love this Star Office its faster and better than 4.0 and now I > feel like I want to buy a copy. With 4.0 I felt like it was so useless I > was glad I did not cough up some money for it, but I am going to buy the > Windows version just so I can get my hand on their manuals. > > /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > Daniel J. Mashao > Electrical Engineering daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za > University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel > Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 > /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
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