Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:37:05 -0500 (EST) From: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: RE: WordPerfect "going away" (on 3.0-RELEASE). Message-ID: <XFMail.990116003705.fireman@shaw.wave.ca> In-Reply-To: <199901152038.PAA06632@lakes.dignus.com>
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I've had the same problem in OpenBSD, FreeBSD 2.X and linux slakware 3.5 (all on the same hardware), all the same I've killed it before it ever came back, so I assumed it was an x problem or a wp problem. regards rob On 15-Jan-99 Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I've got WordPerfect installed... and I was thrilled with the prospect > of not having to use a Windows machine... > > But - after playing with it for a short time; I don't think it's quite > "there" yet... > > Then, I thought, my experience can't be unique... so perhaps someone > knows what the problem is. > > What's happening is that every now-and-then, on an text insert (usually > a copy-and-paste from another window) or a font resize; WordPerfect seems > to "go away" for many minutes. > > That is, it stops responding to X events... and starts consuming a *lot* > of CPU. > > After about 10 minutes, it will return - having not completed the task... > > Again - this is on 3.0-RELEASE.. I was wondering a few things: > > 1) Has anyone else seen this? > > 2) Is it, by happenstance, a problem in the LINUX emulation? > > 3) Does anyone have any recommendation for a fix? > > It seems to be related to X11 somehow... after awhile the process will > totally lock up, then my X server will hang and I have to login from > another machine to kill WordPerfect and get my X server back. (I have > a Matrox Millenium II card, if that's meaningful.) > > Thanks for any info! > > - Dave Rivers - ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca> Date: 16-Jan-99 Time: 00:33:12 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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