On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:42:21PM +0200, Alan Yaniger wrote: > Other users have the problem that hardware acceleration causes blank > slides, as mentioned in Issue 89214. Sometimes adding Latin text to > the presentation causes the slide show to look ok. > Hi Alan,
now, *that* is very weird, and the first time I've heard about it. Any chance to have people report extensive details in the issue (version numbers for drivers, hardware used etc.)? > Yesterday we built a Hebrew version of 3.0 for Windows, to see the > behavior in a Hebrew build. I found that I was getting blank slides. > However, I couldn't turn off hardware acceleration, because the option > wasn't there! > > > So... > > > 1) If the version downloaded from the site has this option, why doesn't > it show up in my build? I don't see anything about this in the configure > settings. Does it depend on the hardware? > Did you build with --enable-directx? If yes, and if your installation contains some directxXXcanvas.uno.dll files, maybe your card/driver combination refuses to work with DX canvas, or was already blacklisted. In these cases, the options dialog just plain hides the option checkbox, as there's nothing to choose then. > 2) Is hardware acceleration on by default, even if the option does not > appear in the Tools/Options/View window? > Nope, it's off then. > 3) Why should this affect RTL? By the way, users who have seen this > problem did not have it on 2.4 > That's indeed the interesting question, but why not follow up on this in an issue? Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
