On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 03:26:27PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> On Monday 16 September 2002 14:49, Chris Halls wrote:
> > You haven't said which graphics chip you have, and which display driver
> > you are using. It's impossible to tell if OpenOffice is likely to be
> > causing problems without knowing which chipset you have, because it only
> > triggers bugs in certain drivers.
>
> according to XF86Config-4:
> Driver "s3virge"
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Aha. You should check which version of the driver you have. From the
openoffice.org docs:
* Problems with S3 Savage chip
If you are running XFree86 4.x and have an S3 Savage chip, you must use
this workaround. Export this variable before starting openoffice:
SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true
export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50
If you do not do this, OOo will not work and the Xserver will eventually
hang. If you are very unlucky, the machine must be _powered off_ and
rebooted to clear the problem!
Alternatively, you can install XFree86 4.2, or update the driver to
version 1.1.20 or above from:
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
> But it's not OpenOffice who causes this, even if I don't use OO, it still
> happens.
Well, it is a bug in the driver, so maybe another program is triggering it
too.
The upcoming Xfree86 4.2 packages contain a fixed version of this driver,
plus some post-4.2 bugfixes.
Chris
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