[Klug-general] OOo ver 3 incompatibility

[Mike Rentell]

George Prowse wrote:
> Mike Rentell wrote:
>>
>>
>> George Prowse wrote:
>>> Mike Rentell wrote:
>>>> Good morning all,
>>>> Having taken advice from the group yesterday (many thanks) I managed 
>>>> to get OOo ver 2.2.1 uninstalled and ver 3 installed on my Mandriva 
>>>> 2008 set.
>>>>
>>>> Now I find that it crashes Compiz Fusion running to my nvidia 
>>>> graphics card.
>>>>
>>>> So I've had to uninstall Compiz. Ho well - more speed less eye candy.
>>>>
>>>> Any one else had graphics problem with OOo ver 3?
>>>>
>>>> MikeR
>>>> in Folkestone
>>>>
>>> i suggest changing down one version of your nvidia drivers
>>>
>>
>> Wise words, no doubt, but I rely on the Mandriva installer to 
>> recognise what version of nvidia is needed and it just does it.
>>
>> I wouldn't have a clue where to start following your advice. I always 
>> have this awful feeling that something will go terribly wrong and 
>> leave me lost and baffled.
>>
>> Perhaps I shall stick with higher speed and no eye candy. At least the 
>> nvidia logo flashes up OK when things start so that's reassuring - er 
>> isn't it?
>>
>> Actually  I'm half inclined to go back to OOo 2.2.1, reinstall the 
>> eye-candy and download OOo3 for Windows and put that on my VirtualBox 
>> XP installation. Then I can have OOo3 still running on this machine 
>> concurrently.
>>
>> Eventually, no doubt, Mandriva will get it sorted out in their next or 
>> next-but-one edition. I use Mandriva 2008 which is fine. I've looked 
>> at Mandriva 2009 and I'm not impressed. It flashed up a nvidia(beta) 
>> logo and just doesn't look as good. So i went back to mdv2008. Picky!
>>
>> Or perhaps I should try Fedora or Debian. I never seem to get on with 
>> everybody's favourite ubuntu. It don't suit me at all.
>>
>> But many thanks to everyone for the good advice.
>>
>> MikeR
>>
> If you have a look in the repositories there should be several versions 
> of most applications/libraries and your package manager will use the 
> latest stable version unless told to do so otherwise.
> 
> Gentoo uses textfiles so depending on what you want to do you add the 
> package to package.mask, package.unmask or package.use and debian based 
> systems use /etc/apt/preferences
> 
> I have no idea what rpm uses because rpms are the main reason for me 
> never wanting to touch a distro that uses them
> 
> G
> 
I was just wondering if the incompatibility between OOo3 and 
Mandriva2008.1 (updated) + KDE 3.5 + nvidia could be to do with OOo's 
reliance on java. I have the mandatory JavaRTE installed, but when you 
install the Windows version of OOo3 (how I am using it now under 
VirtualBox) it also goes and gets a java update. It seems that the Linux 
version either spotted that the java update wasn't necessary on my 
machine or just didn't bother to seek/find/get.

Just a thought
MikeR