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05-26-2003, 06:40 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Posts: 11
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OpenOffice.org
Hi,
I've installed OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 on linux mandrake 9.1
When I start soffice I have this message:"could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl"
Same problem with mankrake package version.
Can I solve this problem?
Thanks
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05-26-2003, 07:45 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Brissle, England
Posts: 97
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Uh, have you a Nvidia card? Have you installed the Nvidia drivers?
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05-26-2003, 08:53 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: root@localhost
Distribution: Fedora Core 5, Ubuntu, Debian
Posts: 537
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yes as Nerd2 said did you install Nvidia Drivers for linux?? need more info about your problem....
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05-26-2003, 11:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Posts: 11
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Yes, I have installed NVIDIA-GLX 0.9-5 becouse another program, ksensors, require libGLcore.so.1
However ksensors dont'work!
I haven't NVIDIA card, I have sapphire radeon 9000 pro 128
Last edited by Jafar; 05-26-2003 at 11:02 AM.
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05-26-2003, 11:13 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: root@localhost
Distribution: Fedora Core 5, Ubuntu, Debian
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hmm... thats thats weird, i'll get back to you on that...
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05-26-2003, 04:54 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Brissle, England
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Well, from I less knowlegable linux POV, i would guess the NVIDIA drivers have installed /dev/nvidiactl or something to make OO look for it. I would create a link from /dev/nvidiactl to your real gfx card.
I dunno if that'll work in a linux enviroment but that's what i'd guess
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05-27-2003, 07:39 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Posts: 11
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The file /dev/nvidiactl is empty!
How I can create the link to my card?
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05-27-2003, 09:15 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Brissle, England
Posts: 97
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I've lost my bit of paper with it on , but there was a command to create a link. Can't remember what it was though, soz.
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05-27-2003, 11:47 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Denver, CO US
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 453
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ln -s /dev/whatever/your/card/is /dev/nvidiactl
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