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

I was not aware of Leigh's advice until I saw your response here. So.... 
I found and followed his advice, and, I still see issues.

Note that I do still see the driver, however

>rpm -qa | grep -i nouveau
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.x86_64

Then again, I also see all sorts of kmod stuff

>rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.1.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-13.fc16.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-290.10-1.fc16.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-11.fc16.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64-290.06-1.fc16.2.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64-290.06-1.fc16.3.x86_64





On 12/02/2011 03:18 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> If you're running "kmod" nvidia drivers then you are not running nouveau. Nouveau runs 
> out-of-the-box (fresh installation) and has proven to be more headache-free. I have not noticed this issue. 
> Could this be peculiar to a file? Can you describe steps to replicate it without transferring a sample file?
>
> I am presently running nouveau with LO without issues on F16 but I probably haven't gone your route. My experience with 
> "kmod-nvidia" and the sister "akmod-nvidia" is that they conflict with nouveau especially if 
> nouveau is not silenced. Did U follow leigh's instructions at forums.fedoraforum.org?
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> from twohot@device.mobile :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Lozier<jslozier@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:11:58
> To:<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: 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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Andrew Pitonyak
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