Wednesday, July 12. 2006OpenOffice Not Working on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06This is an odd error, and I must say I am pretty surprised it managed to get out like this, nonetheless here is the solution. If your error looks like this... [fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint SomeMoreTechnicalShit What you need is a new libGL.so.1.2. I'm not going to pretend to understand this one. I'm just going to tell you what I worked out from googling. Except I am hoping that Google will rank this post highly, and make it easy for others to find in future The My solutionYour mileage may vary, I am not responsible for your laptop, your install, the weather, or your children. Firstly download this file, and save it somewhere you can remember, the Desktop for example. Click to Download your new libGL file Run this command, replacing ~dez/Desktop with whatever location you chose. The first line creates a back up, in case your system goes batshit.
Thats all, start open office and it should work now. If it doesn't, I apologise Trackbacks
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libGL is the OpenGL library on Linux. So replacing it shouldn't work, unless the problem is with Impress and cairo on your machine is linked to a b0rk3d glitz (which does OpenGL rendering for cairo).
Well whether it should or shouldn't work, it works
 Here is where I got the info from eventually... http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185033 Something to do with ATI drivers, Radeon cards, Dell D600 latitudes, etc.
That is an odd one alright, I have not had that issue. I am using kubuntu dapper 6.06 on a ThnikPad T60p
Are these the propritery drivers? If so, they replace the OpenGL libs with their own infestation. I've had similar problems with NVidia. Propritery drivers are bad.
Well its a clean install, so I doubt they are propietary drivers, at least I don't think they would be in the default install. I'm not sure though.
I just read the thread. Those issues seem to be specifically due to the propritery ATI frglx drivers. Unofortunatly all graphics drivers suck on all platforms (except the open-source Intel on Linux). I've had numerous issues lately with NVidia on Linux and NVidia on Windows. The drivers are optimised for speed without giving a thought to reliability. The fast-path is really fast, but if you stray outside it you'll bring your system down.
My OO.o was not opening at all, except for the splash page. I did not receive any errors, just no program at all. I had recently updated my graphics drivers to the latest ATI drivers, but never tested the OO.o functionality. I mean, why would you? Anyway, This fix totally worked for me. I am happily composing a class assignment as we speak.
Thank you!
Thanks for the great tip! Worked like a charm on my laptop. I was reading other posts who say it's related to the ATI driver/xorg config (which is the same config on my laptop). My Desktop PC, which uses the nVidia driver didn't have this problem. Just a thought.
Thanks again! Jay
Jay,
The NVidia drivers also replace the system GL libraries. It just seems that NVidia don't screw up as bad as ATI here. Though my experience with NVidia cards is that they suck. I helped set up a 24 monitor display system, which drove the cards beyond breaking point. If the drivers were open-source I would've been able to fix the bugs, but they're not 
Thanks, I have a Dell D600 and this was my problem. Never really thought it would be my video driver that caused the problem as it did work at one point. Thanks for the fix.
No bother lads, As I said I only really mentioned this here so that it'd be easy to find for others.
I ran into this problem tonight (only upgraded to Dapper yesterday). But now both OpenOffice and e.g. fglrxinfo (gives correct info) work again. Thanks!
worked for me too on my HP laptop, thanks! I am new to linux and I tried reinstalling oo originally, I definetly would not solve this myself.
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