8.10 & Nvidia + OOoo

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 09:08:36 UTC 2008


2008/11/10 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
> My son wanted to do some homework yesterday using OpenOffice. The computer has a Geforce card and
> is using the Nvidia drivers. I know that there are still some issues with the Nvidia drivers but
> I have found another one:
> Open OpenOffice; click inside the window, then click on the desktop or let the mouse pointer
> hover over the Panel buttons; or click on the Kmenu button -- we get some really cool desktop
> effects - the colors all get inverted, most times the desktop goes black but sometimes the
> wallpaper color is inverted and it looks awesome!
> OK, back to reality - it's basically unusable! Does anybody have any idea when Nvidia are going
> to get their drivers sorted out?
>
> How do I switch to the nv driver?
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel

You can try to disable the Desctop effects (if you have it enabled) to
see if it make any difference.

/ Jonas




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