On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:31:26PM +0000, James Mathers wrote: > I recently installed Debian 3.0 on my laptop, and have installed > openoffice from both a apt source, and compiled the program myself, > with the same issue. As soon as I load the application it hangs mt > whole machine, no responce to any input including cntl-alt-backspace, > and any attemp to end x or even view another terminal. I'm not sure > what the issue could be, i'm pretty shure I have all the pakages > needed to run the program, as I would have thought the compile/install > process would check for these, and my X seems to run fine in all other > applications inluding video watching.
What is your graphics card? It sounds like an S3 - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz Chris
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