openoffice menus show as lines and dialog boxes are blank [SOLVED]

[Larry Shields]

dwain wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Leonard Chatagnier 
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
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>
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>     Congratulations on your success; you fixed it yourself.
>     However, I leave you with one thought. If you didn't
>     proceed with the rming of /.openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org>
>     and rebooted
>     or at least log out and back in, then you'll never know
>     if that would have fixed the issue and perhaps allowed
>     continued use of the proprietary nvidia driver. If you
>     did follow through with it, then it would be nice to
>     let the list know the results.
>
>
> yes, i rebooted the system after removing the nvidia driver and that's 
> when i got the menus back.  i reinstalled the driver again to make 
> sure that was the problem and after installation no menus.  i removed 
> the driver, rebooted and got my menus back.  i thought that was some 
> strange behavior, but my system runs better with the ubuntu video 
> driver.  since i don't use desktop effects and i don't do 3d, using 
> the ubuntu driver is the way to go for me.
>
> cheers,
> dwain
>
>
> -- 
> "Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.  " - Kahlil Gibran
*Hello Dwain,

 From your report of what had happened to your menus, was what I had 
here on my system...I was running the nvidia drive so I could use the 
desktop effects...So I will try to keep this in mind, and leave the 
desktop effects off, and not to install the nvidia drive for my card...

Many thanks for the info...

Larry
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