Re: Fedora Matrox dual head crashes OpenOffice

[Klaasjan Brand <kjb dds nl>]

Peter Boy wrote:

> Am Do, den 30.10.2003 schrieb Michael K. Johnson um 15:49:
>  
>
> > We're at the point of cutting candidate trees for the release, so
> > testing current rawhide would be VERY useful.
> >    
>
> Hardware: IBM IntelliStation dual P III, Matrox G550 DVI Dual Head
> (analog), Xinerama mode
>
>
> Each time when I start OpenOffice and open a document (some documents,
> unfortunately not every), OpenOffice crashes. The window freezes and I
> have to use kill to stop it.
>
> If I disable xinerama and and use only 1 monitor, I can work with the
> documents in question. It doesn't matter wether I use the smp or the uni
> kernel.
>
> Must be related to Fedora specific issues. Installing SuSE or Mandrake
> on the very same hardware does work.
>
> Bug: 108700
>  
There was a check in OpenOffice 1.0 which disabled anti-aliased fonts in 
a Xinerama configuration because some drivers (especially the XFree 
4.0/4.1 matrox driver) were buggy and could crash the X server. Maybe 
the Red Hat OpenOffice rpm's include a remnant of that workaround?

Klaasjan