Fwd: ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

[Ric Moore]

On 05/15/2013 11:38 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2013/5/15 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>> On 05/12/2013 03:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure it's even possible to replace my graphics card; it's a
>>> laptop. I have been planning to replace it with a desktop computer
>>> since 2010, but so far I didn't, for some reason… Maybe I should
>>> finally do it.
>>
>>
>> Ah! For an "older" laptop you might be best off not going for a desktop with
>> hotrod graphic effects at all. Install XFCE, or Lubuntu,
>
> I hate both of them, so no, I won't do that mistake again. And my
> laptop is not THAT old… And it worked perfectly with Ubuntu 10.10 with
> desktop effects on (those I think I need, I didn't try all of them at
> once…). I even had a lot of swimming fish inside the cube without any
> problems… (that's not one of the effects I usually use though, I was
> just testing). But since Ubuntu 12.04 (I went directly from 10.10 to
> 12.04 with a fresh install, only keeping my old home partition)I found
> a lot of problems with Compiz, that I didn't experience previously.

So, you inherited old dot-config files too. There is that. But, if I am 
not mistaken, it was around then that xorg.conf got killed off.

Here's my suggestion, as I have had to fool with nvidea for many moons.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/202677/nvidia-driver-doesnt-work-in-12-10/202680#202680

Print this out, as you might find yourself in the Twilight Zone between 
installing the correct driver and having it generate a new xorg.conf 
file so it can correctly run, to wind up in a text mode login screen 
when/if the xserver fails dramatically.

Ensure that the linux-headers-XXX and linux-restricted-modules-XXX 
packages are ~~pre-installed~~, where XXX matches the version of the 
kernel you are using. Otherwise you'll be stuck like Chuck trying to 
apt-get install with the correct repo-file-name when you're in text 
mode. Been there, done that. You should be good to go. Set depth = 16
to spare the grey hair, sluggishness and possibly the artifacts. Read 
the remarks, too. Good Luck man! I wish you success. Ric



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