Fedora Matrox dual head crashes OpenOffice
Klaasjan Brand
kjb at dds.nl
Fri Oct 31 12:00:18 UTC 2003
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
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