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[Pauli <suokkos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Few things that could help in problem. You need to add configurations to
/etx/X11/xorg.conf to "Configured Video Device" section. You can find
more etailed info what can be put there using "man radeon" in console.

1. Disabling DRI (Option "DRI" "off")
2. Disable AGP by enabling PCI mode (Option "BusType" "PCI")
3. Change AGP speed to 4x (Option "AGPMode" "4")
4. Using old XAA acceleration  (Option "AccelMethod" "XAA")
5. Have ssh connection to system when it freezes to collect information from dmesg, xorg.log and openoffice/xorg trace logs. ssh connection recuires you to install ssh server which allows secure remote login to your machine. More details about ssh can be found from https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html and strace info https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Strace. You most likely want to write the strace output directly to a file in your second machine which won't freeze.
6. Trying to stream the kernel log to another machine in lan using net console. This might reveal the error message that you can't red locally. But I have small doubt that there might not be anything to see. But if you want to try here is link to the kernel parameter documentation: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt

I think that some of these freeze problems has been fixed in Karmic too.
If you don't want to try the upgrade you can use newer graphics driver
from https://launchpad.net/~xorg-
edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty

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x freezes in ubuntu 9.04 on using OOo
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