[K12OSN] Open Office Slowness

[Eric Harrison]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 06:40, Shane Stafford wrote:
> good morning
> 
> We have kinda of an urgent situation.  We are running a Summer Tech
> Academy next week to train our faculty.  We are focusing on LTSP for all
> classes K-6.  We ran our computer lab on LTSP 3.x last year and the
> computer teacher loved it.  
> 
> Here is the problem, Open Office menus are pulling down very very slow. 
> Once in a screen it performs ok.  But the mouse movement and reaction of
> the pull downs is terrible.   We did not see this last year.  The server
> is a new one, but same model and specs as last years model.
> We are now running 4.0.1.
> 
> any ideas?  We are pretty much a full blown LTSP school, but I know the
> teachers won't stand for this kind of performance.  What is different?
> thanks
> Shane


Shane, any chance your terminals are using S3 video cards?

If yes, try using different video drivers. In /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf,
try each of the following (one at a time):

	XSERVER = s3

	XSERVER = XF86_S3

	XSERVER = XF86_SVGA

	XSERVER = vesa

-Eric
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