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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #371296
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 371296

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Wilbert Volkers (wilbertvolkers) wrote : Re: system freezes when starting openoffice writer

Thanks for the help so far, to test your classification "xserver-xorg-video-ati" i edited xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
  Driver "vesa" # changed from value "ati" to "vesa"
  ...

After this change restarted x windows and open office writer worked perfectly. There are no related problems in any of the other tools i use, but all of the openoffice.org tools seem to freeze x windows at some point. That makes me wonder what is different in openoffice in relation to the ati driver.