The scim-bridge solution works for me also. Before that, when I started openoffice on Edgy with the fglrx driver, it showed this error:
Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit -- scim and fglrx conflict with openoffice https://launchpad.net/bugs/42015 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
