[Gllug] Office software

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Fri Nov 16 12:02:54 UTC 2001


> 
> Mine too. My laptop has an S3 Savage graphics.
> There are known problems with this and Star/Open office
> 
> 
> >From the Xfree86 site:
> 
> 
> Office hangs on installation.  
> 
> This is probably my #1 Most Frequently Asked Question... There is a
> known conflict between StarOffice 5.2 (and, presumably, OpenOffice as
> well) and the Savage driver up to 1.1.19. There is a note in the
> StarOffice README about hangs when
> using a ViRGE chip, along with a suggested workaround, and the
> workaround also applies to the Savage. The workaround is to set an
> environment variable "SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50" to "true" before
> launching StarOffice. The trickiest part is
> making sure StarOffice really sees the variable. If you use xdm/kdm, you
> must use one of the global rc files, like /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, or
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local. NOTE, however, that this problem should no longer
> occur as of version 1.1.20t. 

You star!! - I know I should have had a nosey - however it was far
easier for me to install abiword and suffer.

This changes the whole composition of my Friday now :-)

Cheers
Xander


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