Crossover office and screen problems

stunter · 01-03-2005, 05:27 PM

I recently upgraded to the latest Crossover Office. Installation went great and everything still works. Nothing was broken in the upgrade (a minor miracle, that).

One problem did develop and I wondered if others have seen it. Whenever I run a Windows application with Crossover Office (Word, for instance), the screen goes blank. I can ctrl-alt-Fx to another terminal screen then jump back and everything is fine with the appication up and working without problem. But it does this every time I run an application with Crossover office.

Everthing worked fine with the previous version. This is version 4.0.x

System is a P4 with 1gig memory, ATI 9600XT (256mb) AGP display card, Mandrake 10.0. Only change was to upgrade from the 3x version to 4x.

Any ideas?

stunter · 01-13-2005, 10:15 PM

Well, I've continued to search for an answer to this.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks for any help

stunter

Commando464 · 01-13-2005, 10:30 PM

USE OPENOFFICE THEN YOU WONT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU USE A GREAT OS LIKE LINUX AND RUN LOUSY WINBLOWS APPS.

stunter · 01-13-2005, 10:38 PM

Oh thanks, that was helpful.

As it turns out, the particular thing I need isn't available from OpenOffice. I need MS Word's WordArt function to do certain tasks. There's isn't an equivelent that I've found. There are other ways to do this with some Linux applications in a sort of piecemeal way, but none as easy and complete as WordArt.

Too bad, too. I was hoping to finish dumping my Windows installation completely with the use of a couple of apps I need through Crossover Office. Guess XP will have to stick around for awhile yet.

scuzzman · 01-13-2005, 11:53 PM

I'm unsure of the cause (can't even get cxoffice to load properly), but your resolution seems to work. I don't believe it will cause any adverse problems to switch back and forth when you wish to use Word.

stunter · 01-14-2005, 09:17 AM

Scuzzman,

Yea, it's just irritating. It works fine overall. It didn't do this before I upgraded to 4.1. I suspect it is some display setting conflict, but I haven't been able to figure out what. I'm planning to upgrade my Mandrake installation from 10.0 to 10.1 this weekend. Perhaps that will help.

idiallo · 02-01-2005, 03:53 PM

Hi stunter,
I had the exact same problem, it is caused by the ATI video card driver apparently. I emailed the Crossover Office support, and they advised me to switch to an xorg driver. Finally, i kept the same driver, ATI Radeon (fglrx), but without hardware acceleration, and the problem disappeared.
Hope this helps.
Mandrake 10.1, ATI Radeon 9700.

stunter · 02-01-2005, 05:53 PM

idiallo,

Yea, I upgraded to 10.1 and the problem went away. The trick was getting the ATI card (RV350 chip) to work right afterwards. Getting direct rendering to work was a challenge. But it all seems to operate at once now. Even Crossover Office.

<the crowd goes wild>

stunter

freddymc · 02-21-2005, 12:03 PM

Hey I've got the same problem, too!
But I'm using SuSE 9.2 and I use an ATI driver for my xorg (6.8) and I've official fglrx ATI Driver installed.

I didn't understand exactly how you got CrossOver Office working, could you please help me?
Cause I'm a

in Linux

Thx a lot
Fred

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Infos: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro, CrossOver Office 4.0, uname -r: 2.6.8-24-default