Bug 435213

Summary: OpenOffice.org does not start with fglrx driver and dualhead
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nicola Romanò <romano.nicola>
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Nicola Romanò 2008-02-27 23:17:29 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Description of problem:
Openoffice.org won't start at all when dualhead is enabled using xinerama with fglrx driver.
Launching the software from commandline (openoffice.org -writer) doesn't give any output, the cursor just stalls.

I'm using fglrx driver with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
1st monitor: 1280x800, 2nd monitor: 1280x1024 (attached xorg.conf)

ati or radeonhd drivers don't have this problem, but apparently they have problems with dual head with different resolutions (or, at least, I can't make it work).

See for reference: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=275392



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.11.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup a dual head system with xinerama (with different resolutions? not sure) using fglrx driver (see attached xorg.conf)
2.open openoffice.org

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Expected Results:


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Comment 1 Nicola Romanò 2008-02-27 23:19:41 UTC 
Created attachment 296139 [details]
xorg.conf

xorg.conf for dual-head setup with fglrx/xinerama
Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2008-02-28 08:25:22 UTC 
*** Bug 435212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2008-02-28 08:33:58 UTC 
fglrx a proprietary driver that's not supplied by fedora, so you're mostly out
of luck here unless it can be reproduced with a non-proprietary driver.

That said I suggest you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and your
/var/log/messages and the output of /usr/sbin/sestatus e.g. there might be a
problem with your fglrx and selinux for example.
Comment 4 Nicola Romanò 2008-02-29 01:02:01 UTC 
Created attachment 296295 [details]
Xorg log file

Attached Xorg.0.log file.
Can't seem to find any /var/log/messages file on my computer.

sestatus outputs 

SELinux status: 		enabled
SELinuxfs mount:		/selinux
Current mode:			permissive
Mode from config file:		permissive
Policy version: 		21
Policy from config file:	seedit
Comment 5 Nicola Romanò 2008-02-29 03:15:25 UTC 
I managed to find a temporary solution to the problem.

1) start a second X session with Xephyr

Xephyr -xinerama -ac -screen 1280x1024 :2

2) Start a KDE desktop inside (I'm running gnome and for whatever reason I can't
seem to start another Gnome desktop) with:

DISPLAY=:2 startkde

3) Open OO in KDE, it works!

I guess the opposite would also work (login with KDE, open Gnome in Xephyr), but
haven't tried.
Comment 6 Caolan McNamara 2008-02-29 08:14:10 UTC 
Your logs are riddled with loads of...

(EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Locking deadlock.
	Already locked with context 153779292,
	trying to lock with context 24.
(EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Unlocking inconsistency:
	Context 153779292 trying to unlock lock held by context 24

which looks pretty bad, perhaps googling for that or checking the
bugzilla/forums of the vendor which provides this 3rd party driver might be the
best thing to do.

As a possibility its possibly worth giving 

> export SAL_NOOPENGL=1
> oowriter

a go to see if disabling using opengl works around the immediate problem
Comment 7 Caolan McNamara 2008-03-04 15:25:55 UTC 
I strongly suspect that this is the driver, not OOo.