On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:26:28 -0800
NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:

> On 02/28/2007 07:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> [long snip of good info]
> 
> Interesting & thanks much for outlining what you did.
> 
> Per your:
> 
> > The question remains, however, is it OOo 2.0.4 or Ubuntu Edgy amd64? I
> > also have a live CD for 32-bit Edgy. I rebooted the computer to it and
> > tried OOo Writer again. This time drag and drop worked perfectly. The
> > web wizard worked perfectly. And changing settings in Tools > Options
> > were saved for subsequent new documents.
>
> It appears that OOo 2.0.4 *does* work under 32-bit Edgy. I think that
> you've already demonstrated that 2.1 doesn't work either in 64, but you
> might want to go through the exercise just to be sure. Any other AMD64
> users on other distros having the same problem?
>
> I'm scheduled to buy a new motherboard this week for my old 300Mhz tower
> test machine; maybe I'll buy a amd64 so that I can test/share the
> misery... what MB do you have?

I have a Compaq laptop R3240. The chipset and graphics are nVidia. I
know the wireless is Broadcom (because I had to poke it some to get it
to work), but I have no idea what the rest of the stuff is, but it all
works out of the box -- mouse, ethernet, USB, firewire, sound, etc.

There is an e-list for Compaq R3000 Linux users that I have subscribed
to for some time. Just now I posted a query there to see if any other
R3000 users have run into the same problem.

> BTW: You may have seen this already, but:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_to_x86-64_(AMD64,_EM64T)
> notice the Java bits "You have to have a 64bit Java installed. The
> following are known to work". Perhaps going back to Blacktown Java will
> fix the problem?

I was already aware that OOo 2.2 is expected in March, but I doubt that
it will resolve the problem -- for the same reason that 2.1 did not
help. It will probably take 64-bit, and that won't be until September.
However, having said that, I understand that Feisty comes with a 64-bit
OOo. I am assuming that the Ubuntu folks compiled it from source.

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