On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 16:31, Brian Ashe wrote:
> Do you happen to have an S3 Savage video card?

No, it's a VooDoo 5.

> 
> According to both the OpenOffice.org's Bugzilla and RH's Bugzilla, this is a 
> known issue.
> 
> You have two options...
> 
> 1. If you haven't done so, update your XFree86 packages to the latest errata 
> version. This is a big download. (You may want to grab anything else you 
> haven't got already.) This should fix the problem as there was a driver issue 
> for the Savage.

I do have the updated XFree86 packages installed.  Will the XFree86 4.2
packages from RawHide install on 7.2?

> 2. If the above is either not desirable, or not applicable, you may want to 
> try the workaround as presented by the OOo folks. It requires that you set 
> the environment variable SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true . This should take care 
> of it.

I'll try that and see what happens.

> 
> This is non-authoritative. Please consult the following for more information. 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31879
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2108
> 
> <diatribe>
> Also keep in mind that if you have what seem to be unusual or unsolvable 
> problems when you are following all the correct instructions it may be a bug. 
> It is often good to use the bug tracking facilities that people set up. You 
> are actually helping if you can give good details and make people aware of 
> your problems. You may also just find the answer you are looking for. (It has 
> helped me numerous times.)
> </diatribe>

Gotcha. :)  I did go through the IssueZilla on OO and file a report on
this, but sometimes more investigation needs to be done. ;-)

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