[RESOLVED]Nvidia drivers 180 and 173 don't work with Openoffice and Firefox.

Asked by Wilson Perdomo

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The real annyoing problem is with the drivers for my graphics card. I using the following card:
Code:

nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)

I'm having issues with buttons disappearing in openoffice unless I refresh the display with the 180 driver. Though the 180 driver works well considering I'm facing the right click bug. I tried changing my driver to 173 so after I restart I open openoffice and it works perfect! Now I open firefox and its very slow and buggy it has almost all the bugs that you all are reporting! I'm really annoyed by this. I guess I have no other choice till Nvidia fixes these problems.

Here is the thread about firefox being slow:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...56#post7372656

Here is the thread about open office not working:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1168243

I'm using ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope too! Please fix this as soon as you can!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/381946
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/381952

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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Wilson Perdomo (xavierp94) said :
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Wilson Perdomo (xavierp94) said :
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I'm getting the same problems as this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/213872

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Wilson Perdomo (xavierp94) said :
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^Except I get the problem above when I enable the 173 driver thats when firefox performance is terrible - even scrolling a simple text-only page or changing to a different tab is sluggish or delayed.

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Wilson Perdomo (xavierp94) said :
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Could someone close it. I'm using the 180 driver and I found out what was affecting openoffice. I still seem to get the right click bug though.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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