Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-30 Thread Trever L. Adams
My problem is some things changed in the installed package changed and some things in my home directory in .openoffice (setup and soffice) were incorrect. I erased the symlinks and my problem is over. I would suggest others having problems try the same. This may have NOTHING to do with the kernel

Re: DRI (was Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*)

2005-01-29 Thread Dave Airlie
> > No, XAA is normally used for 2D acceleration. This is hardware > accelerated but doesn't use DRI, X does 2D accel by talking directly to > the hardware without the kernel's involvement. > well not totally true, X on radeon/r200/r300 cards needs the DRM to load the microcode for the command p

DRI (was Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*)

2005-01-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 15:57 -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: > Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > >* Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >>Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came > >>up empty. > >> > >> > > > >It does pointless 3D objects in its drawing

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Parag Warudkar
Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came up empty. It does pointless 3D objects in its drawing package. Another stupid question :) Does it mean DRI is only used for doing 3D? How about no

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 20:40 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came > > up empty. > > It does pointless 3D objects in its drawing package. > Thanks. I knew it had to be someth

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:25, Jon Smirl wrote: >On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +, Richard Hughes wrote: >> > Note, that strace glxgears gives exactly the same output, going >> > from 0 to 14 and then seg-faulti

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came > up empty. It does pointless 3D objects in its drawing package. Dave -Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code --- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert| Running

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > And oowriter and glxgears work from bootup. Shall I file a bug with udev? > > Your user ID needs to belong to group DRI. > Stupid question: what the heck does OO use DRI for? I googled and came up empty. Lee - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Trever L. Adams
For the record, this has nothing to do with my crash. Mine still crashes all the time if I try to save a new document. Trever On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +,

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > Note, that strace glxgears gives exactly the same output, going from 0 to > > 14 and then seg-faulting, so it's *not just a oo problem*. > > I know it's bad

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > Note, that strace glxgears gives exactly the same output, going from 0 to > > 14 and then seg-faulting, so it's *not just a oo problem*. > > I know it's bad

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > Note, that strace glxgears gives exactly the same output, going from 0 to > 14 and then seg-faulting, so it's *not just a oo problem*. I know it's bad to answer your own post, but here goes. I changed my /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.p

OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:32:47 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > it is not a permission thing, it tells you, that you have not card14 - and i > dont know the dri interface but it looks unlikely that there ever will be > one .) I figured (maybe incorrectly) that oo was just going thru the dri card* fil