Re: [2.2.0pre*] word perfect 8

Kurt Garloff (kurt@garloff.de)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:02:21 +0100

On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Tygrys wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Word Perfect 8 for Linux crashes X while loading in 2.2.0pre...
> Setting the keybord to XLATE (via SysRQ) didn't help. (SysRQ S,U,B
> worked, though)
> The screen and the keyboard were completly frozen.

Did this change from other kernels?
I think, it's most probably an X11 bug. X11 has enough privileges (iopl) to
crash your box, by doing wrong things to your hardware.
This can't be easily avoided. You could try XF86FBDev ...

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