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When I start selecting text (size of more then a paragraph) in LibreOffice, the entire system freezes.

If I use the mouse and left click or press Ctrl+C, the system freezes so I cannot finish selecting.

If I use LibreOffice's menu command Select all or CTRL+A no freeze happens. As a workaround, I switched to Google Docs until I can use LibreOffice.

These are my laptop details:

  • Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz × 4
  • Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 32-bit
  • ram 488,0 GB
  • VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)
  • Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T410
  • Kernel driver in use: nouveau
  • Memory: total 3,8G used 3,3G free 556M shared 226M buffers 66M cached 562M -/+ buffer: 2,7G 1,2G Swap: 3,9G 1,1G 2,7G

Ubuntu newly installed, only one OS, I deleted Windows to install Ubuntu.

Pilot6
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Anton Burkov
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3 Answers3

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Install the video driver by running

sudo apt-get install nvidia-304

and reboot.

I am suggesting 304, because I know that it works better that 340 on that card.

Pilot6
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I had the same thing. First using LibreOffice, which i uninstalled. Then after installing Openoffice. Selecting a piece of text in order to copy it everything froze. My problem was solved by turning off "Transparency" which can be found in "Tools-Options-View". Clearly a graphical issue indeed.

George
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I had the same problem. I first tried deselecting transparency in Libre Office, that worked. I then turned transparency back on and updated the driver per the answer above and that worked also. Some of my details are:

albert@dv4-1412:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30f7
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau


albert@dv4-1412:~$ free --human
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2.0G       746M       1.2G       5.6M        53M       330M
-/+ buffers/cache:       362M       1.6G
Swap:         2.0G         0B       2.0G
andrew.46
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jones5322
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