Re: Laptops!

["Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>]

  Ok, I don't use OO much which explains why I haven't seen it.

Thus spake Michael P. Soulier (msoulier@storm.ca):

> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:32:42 -0500
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Laptops!
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> From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>
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> 
> On 20/11/02 Robert L. Harris did speaketh:
> 
> > Mike, What bug?  I'm using a VAIO since my last dell died.  It makes a
> > good little XTerm for ssh'ing to a heavier box for mail, etc (my Vaio is
> > only a P2 with 96Megs)  The only problem with the booger is the cdrom
> > and floppy are usb, makes debian installs a bit of a problem, or did
> > with Debian2.2, haven't tried 3.0.
> 
>     I've had some instability at times out of X running on it. It's a bug that
> OpenOffice specifically tickles. If I try to run OOo, my CPU goes through the
> roof and the box becomes unresponsive. That includes running it remotely from
> my desktop and using the laptop as an xterm. I'm told that X 4.2 will fix
> that, but I haven't tried it yet. I need to set up pinning so that I only get
> X 4.2, and not the rest of unstable. sawfish in unstable sucks at the moment. 
> 
>     Mike
> 
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