On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hi everybody > > I'm trying to get StarOffice 5.2 to run on my dad's HP Omnibook XE3L > notebook. > > It seems to load sort of ok, but X grinds to a slow painful crawl (like > big delays on just moving the mouse) and black lines appear right across > the screen. The only way to recover seems to be to kill the Xserver > from a remote shell - sometimes I can switch to a vt, but not always. > I'm guessing it is a video card problem - since the software setup of a > 2.4.4 kernel and latest woody stuff is identical to my desktop which has > no such problems > > the video card, according to lspci is: > > VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13) >
This is due to a bug in the S3 driver for X. You can get a fixed driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html or, quoting the FAQ at this site: set an environment variable "SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50" to "true" before launching StarOffice. If you upgrade the driver you will need to remember to replace it when you upgrade X as it will be overwritten, at least until the patch finds its way to the main xfree86 distribution. HTH, dt -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey
