maple constantly crashes

[Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

i installed linux with maple (11) on it for a friend on his new dell (vosotro
1400). For some reason maple constantly crashes for him (every about 5 minutes)
and leaves behind mangled files. On my machine it seems to run fine, although I
haven't stress tested it. When it crashes the files that were open just seem to
be half written to.

Tried reinstalling with the default java implementation and also linking to the
sun java installation but to no avail

could it be that it is not compatible with 64 bit linux, compositing or
something with debian unstable that doesn't match?

thanks