Andy, Thanks for your response. Disabling GUI effects (KDE) did not help.
I'm probably going to switch this system from CentOS to Fedora 7. Thanks. Jeff On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:06 -0400, Andy Pitonyak wrote: > > I am getting a system hang with OO on a CentOS 5 system. > > > > Very often when I open a document (double click a desktop document) and > > then click on the menu the xorg desktop pseudo freezes. The mouse will > > be able to move in a subset of the current screen but all events go to > > the netherworld. > > > > ssh in from another computer and "top" reveals that Xorg has 100% of the > > CPU. > > > > Kill -9 xorg and system is fine. > > > > I don't have this problem on my FC5/6 machines. I previously have FC5 on > > this hardware without any OO trouble. > > > > CentOS 5 > > kernel 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 > > OpenOffice.org 2.0 680m5(Build:9073) > > 2 NVidia Quadro 4 dual screen cards four screen xinerama (4096x1280) > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755 > > I had this problem until I disabled "Desktop Effects". are they called > Beryl (or something similar). > > Please let me know if this helps. I have NOT had this problem since I > disabled the Desktop Effects. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
