Ok, just figured out what the problem is. When I first put this system together I looked on OpenOffice.Org and it says for GNU/Linux distros, the minimum memory requirements are 128Megs. No problem, I thought, I have 256Megs, and when I tried it using a LiveCD with all my mydsl apps on a hard drive everything worked fine.
However, I just noticed that on the info page that pops up when you download OOo as a mydsl app, it says that OpenOffice needs 384Megs of memory.
So, apparently, it worked fine with my setup because my slideshows were simple enough that I guess when DSL paged the extra memory from the hard drive there was no noticeable slowing.
Now that I eliminated the hard drive in favor of a pen drive, the memory requirements caught up with me. I guess I'll be buying some more RAM soon. Go to the UCI section of the MyDSL repository.
There is OpenOffice packaged into *.uci extension format that uses MUCH less memory. Should easily run on 256MB of RAM and probably even on 128MB too.
Quote (cbagger01 @ June 10 2006,23:32)
Go to the UCI section of the MyDSL repository.
There is OpenOffice packaged into *.uci extension format...
Yeah, that's what I've been using. I've tried all the different UCI distros.
I'm thinking that the problem only shows up when trying to display Impress slideshows, there isn't much else in the suite that would need the extra memory.
FINAL UPDATE (06/20/06): I just dropped an additional 256 Megs of memory into my box and it works like charm now. So UCI OOo 2.0Beta works great when booted off a USB pendrive but does need the 384Megs of RAM (as displayed in the MyDSL repository info) for Impress to work correctly.
original here.
I've tried all the different UCI distros.