Fedora Matrox dual head crashes OpenOffice

[Klaasjan Brand]

Peter Boy wrote:

>Am Do, den 30.10.2003 schrieb Michael K. Johnson um 15:49:
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>>We're at the point of cutting candidate trees for the release, so
>>testing current rawhide would be VERY useful.
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>Hardware: IBM IntelliStation dual P III, Matrox G550 DVI Dual Head
>(analog), Xinerama mode
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>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.
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>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.
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>Must be related to Fedora specific issues. Installing SuSE or Mandrake
>on the very same hardware does work.
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>Bug: 108700
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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