Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

On 12/01/2011 10:16 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 10:05 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 11/30/2011 05:04 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > For some time I've found that libreoffice (and openoffice before it) 
> > > had
> > > trouble rendering text with the Linux open 'nouveau' (as opposed to the
> > > proprietary NVIDIA) driver. What appears to happen is that everything
> > > above a certain point is good, but below it the text simply doesn't
> > > appear. I've not seen any other application that has the same problem.
> > >
> > > I've attached a typical screenshot to demonstrate the effect.
> > It always helps if you: 1) tell others what version of LO you are having
> > issues with (and also if it is from LO or some other source; linux
> > distribution repository or PPA, etc), 2) what OS type and  version
> > (there are about thousands of versions of linux). My /guess/ is that you
> > are running some form of Ubuntu, if correct please tell us which version
> > you are running.
> Cannot comment on this poster, but, I have seen a very similar issue 
> on both OOo and LO.  I see this on Linux, not on Windows. I had the 
> problem with Fedora 15 and also Fedora 16. Both are 64-bit versions. I 
> use the KMod drivers for NVidia installed from the repositories. I see 
> the issues with other applications as well, but the primary offenders 
> are OOo and QT.
Using Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 base and derivatives (Pinguy and Mint), 
both 64 bit, I have not seen this behavior. AFAIK the drivers were/are 
ATI Radeon from the repository. The actual drivers were auto-installed 
on installation and left unchanged. The desktops include both Gnome 2.? 
and Gnome 3.2. It appears that the problem is limited to the NVidia drivers.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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