Openoffice.org

[mcgodx]

I recently tried to use Openoffice.org for the first time on this installation for school, and ran in to a problem. Whenever I try to do something in it like make the window full size, scroll past the end of the document, format the pages, or anything more than just typing, and even then it is iffy, I get problems. It'll crash. I ran it from the terminal and here is the error I get when I maximize the screen. I should thing the error is the same when I do other things, but if you need it I can try:

[mylan@localhost ~]$ openoffice.org -writer

::At this point I maximize the window::

X-Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
Resource ID: 0x3a00668
Serial No: 10379 (10379)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging

Does anyone know what the issue is? Since it mentions X, I am assuming it means the GUI. I am running Compiz-Fusion on the computer. I ran it on Ubuntu and never had a problem with Openoffice.org before, so I kinda hope that's not the issue here (I had some unrelated problems in Ubuntu that make me not want to mess with that again). I also did not have a problem with it in Fedora 7.

Another thing I noticed is that the scroll bars don't render properly. If I want to scroll I have to use the scroll wheel on the mouse, or use page up or page down.

Thanks for any help

[Seve]

Hello:

X-Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

The only time I have seen a similar error, it was related to a video driver ? [that may not be the case here, I don't kow]

What type of video card do you have and which driver are you using ?

Seve

[Thetargos]

I'm with Seve on this. If you are running any proprietary driver (fglrx, or nvidia) try (without rebooting, very important!) to substitute the driver from fglrx/nvidia to ati/nv and see if this happens. If doesn't, what version of the drivers are you running? If you are not running any of the above drivers or cards, what type of video card are you running, and what driver?

[mcgodx]

I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7200, and I am using the nvidia drivers. I think the driver version is 100.14.19, although I am not positive. I got that number from the display settings manager applet, that's the only way I know how to get that version number.

I do not know how to substitute drivers... Sorry for that, if you could tell me how that would be a help. Thanks.

[Thetargos]

You running the drivers from Livna or nVidia's site?

Edit

To substitute the driver, all you have to do is to type in a terminal system-config-display or through direct configuration file change (recommended method to ensure everything's OK).

The following is for testing purposes only, should not be a permanent change, as you'll lose 3D accel.

1. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Open a terminal window in your session, and then write su, enter root's password. Open the file with gedit, by typing this:
   

   gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

   Alternatively you may launch gedit from that command line, and then simply use the Open icon or File -> Open menu entry, and navigate to /etc/X11/
2. Scroll to Section "Device", there change the Driver "nvidia" line for Driver "nv".
3. Save the file, exit the root session by typing 'exit' (without the quites) and then close the terminal. Log-out to restart X, you may want to ctrl+alt+backspace in the longin screen to force an X restart and ensure the configuration is picked up.
4. Log back in, and try to run OpenOffice again, do whatever used to crash the program.

NOTE if you are running the desktop effects by default, turn them off prior you exit your session. It may be possible that you will have to remove the nvidia module from the kernel, by this I mean "unload it", so after you log back in, try to run in a terminal, as your user, /sbin/lsmod | grep nvidia, if you see an nvidia module loaded, su to root again and typ e /sbin/rmmod nvidia, nothing should happen, indicating that the module was successfully unloaded, then exit both sessions in the terminal and try to run OOo.

[mcgodx]

Livna. I got them through yum.

[Thetargos]

See the above edit to see how to change drivers.

[Seve]

Originally Posted by mcgodx

I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7200, and I am using the nvidia drivers. I think the driver version is 100.14.19, although I am not positive. I got that number from the display settings manager applet, that's the only way I know how to get that version number.

I do not know how to substitute drivers... Sorry for that, if you could tell me how that would be a help. Thanks.

Hello:
There was a known problem with some hardware combinations using the 7200/7300 cards using the latest officially released drivers. Version: 100.14.19 See Post No. 8
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102101

You may want to try the 169.04 [Beta] and see if they help ?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102509

Livna have them in their testing repo
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/testing/8/i386/

Seve

[mcgodx]

To thetargos: I gave it a shot. It didn't work. It actually made it worse I think, when I forced X to restart, it wouldn't load the "greeter" for 5 tries, then it finally worked. After that the colors were down to thousands (I could see the steps) and OOo still crashed when I maximized.

[leadgolem]

I've got an nvidia 7300 and I use the kmod-nvidia-96xx driver from livna. It's a touch slower then the kmod-nvidia, but it doesn't lock up.

[mcgodx]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
There was a known problem with some hardware combinations using the 7200/7300 cards using the latest officially released drivers. Version: 100.14.19 See Post No. 8
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102101

You may want to try the 169.04 [Beta] and see if they help ?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102509

Livna have them in their testing repo
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/testing/8/i386/

Seve

Thank you for the tip. I think I might go with the nvidia release, I already downloaded it. Plus I wasn't sure which packages I'd have to download. However I am having an issue with getting X killed for the install. I have tried going to just runlevel 3, which obviously didn't really work, I tried the ctrl alt backspace but X just popped right back up. I saw somewhere that "killall gdm" would work, but that didn't do anything.

Thanks.

[mcgodx]

Alright I got it all taken care of.

The new drivers were installed, however, now desktop effects won't start. OOo still gives me problems.

[Seve]

Originally Posted by mcgodx

Alright I got it all taken care of.

The new drivers were installed, however, now desktop effects won't start. OOo still gives me problems.

Hello:
Can you post the output of
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Seve

[mcgodx]

Here it is:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Seve]

Hello:
If you have the nVidia drivers installed then you need to amend your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

Change
Driver "nv"
to
Driver "nvidia"
and add under Section Device

PHP Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection 


and add the following at the end of the file

PHP Code:

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection 


Save, exit and Ctrl ALt Backspace to restart your Xserver and see how it goes.

Seve