On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 20:28, Fernando Perez wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:11:09PM +0100, Andy Wallace wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:59, Nadeem Bitar wrote: > >> > >>>I can't figure out why, but openoffice writer is completely broken it > >>>takes a few seconds for letters to appear after you type them. That's on > >>>a fast machine (3.2GHz, 1GB ram). The CPU and memory usage is very low > >>>and there isn't any disk activity so I am puzzled by that. > >>> > >>>Anyone having the same problem and is there any solution. > >>> > >>>Between I am using OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 on Fedora Core 2. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>I've just installed FC2 on my 2.8GHz PC with 1GB RAM, and I'm also having > >>problems with OpenOffice.org. > >> > >>It works, but takes about 5 minutes to start, then a further 10 minutes > >>to open a single-page document. Once the document is loaded, the > >>performance is OK, but it then takes another 5 minutes to save the file > >>to disk. > > I just traced OO not starting (maybe I didn't wait long enough) to it hanging > waiting for a printer. Try > Good call! This was a fresh install and I hadn't even configured the printer yet. I configured my printer (networked cups printer on another box) and OO started up instantly. Thanks for the help, AndyW
