On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:25 am, kalin mintchev wrote: > hi all... > > i've been waiting for long time to start using open office.... > tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience > to install it on my freebsd laptop. > > well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports and 12 hours > (on a 2.2ghz laptop!?!?) of build of the oo-1.1 port i got it > installed. the setup program went without any issues. > > then oo starts fine but when i try to do a new document - any kind > - it freezes so bad that even after the machine is synched and > ready to go down it won't let go and i have to pull the plug.... it > happens when i try to create a new document. i tried the other > menus and they were all fine. i start it as my user - not as > root... > > there isn't anything in the logs and as far is i can see there are > no cores dumped.... > > now i'm not sure what to do to make this install usable.... > > machine is a 2.2 ghz thinkpad, freebsd 5.3, jdk 1.4.2, Xorg and > sawfish.. > > what now? > I've seen this problem too when I'm using the nvidia driver with the RenderAccel option. Once I turned it off openoffice no longer froze the machine. I think it's an nvidia driver problem that "hopefully" will be fixed in the next release. Whenever that will be.
-- Anish Mistry
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