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Re: StarOffice 5.0 for Linux in PC-Plus magazine, BUT...



On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:48:12 +0200 (IST), Yossi Amon <yossia@ring.sps.mot.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi to all,
>
>In case that you are interested, the February PC-Plus magazine, comes
>with StarOffice 5.0 for Linux, + kernel 2.0.36, as well as quite a few
>articles on Linux.
>
>BUT - Trying to run the staroffice install program resulted in a
>"need to boot situation" after it has grabbed all pointer and keyboard
>inputs, and got stacked, no C-A-D nor C-A-BACKSPACE, no switch to
>other terminals, nothing helps, but plain hardware reset !, seems that
>they are bringing M$Windows features into Linux.
You probably have an S3 based Video card. The solution is either:

1. Grab the patch from www.stardivision.com
2. Install the SVGA X server.

Udi