This is more of an informational post than anything. I have a brand new shiny toshiba tecra 8100. This laptop uses S3's savage video chipset. I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why sun's star office crashes when I click anything. Symptoms: Star Office locks up X after the first mouse click.
Solution: Enable "ShadowFB", or in the device section for your video card, Section "Device" Identifier "Savage 3D" Driver "savage" Option "ShadowFB" "on" EndSection Now, I don't know if it's fixed because the fb is on, or if accel is off. Hw Accel is turned OFF when you enable shadowfb. This seems to have fixed my freeze problems with X. Now, hopefully one of the search engines finds this post sooner or later so some other geek can get their favorite un*x office suite running. Cheers. Jeff Levy Software Design Meta-Craft Creations
