Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Later on, I told my colleagues that KDE improved a lot since 4.0 and > they should give a try to 4.3. For a demonstration I installed KDE on > my machine. I logged in and the first thing to do was to setup the > dual head. I opened System Settings and as soon as I clicked on the > Display, X crashed and I was thrown out. It was really a bad > experience for a demonstration (kind of like Bill Gates' WinME video). > I logged back in and ran krandrtray. This one crashed X too. I clicked > on whatever I can find regarding the desktop setup and I found that > everything on KDE that is related to the X settings crashes X. > > I then had to spend 15 minutes to write an xorg.conf file from scratch > to make the dual head work, while people were making comments in the > lines of "this is why I don't like KDE"... :( X crashing is almost certainly a driver bug (ie, querying randr items from the X server should be a relatively safe operation). > So, what was my mistake? This box has an ATI card and has the open > source radeon drivers (the proprietary drivers are not available on > F-11). Should ATI users stick to F-10 if they want to use KDE, which > has only 2 months of lifetime left? I believe there's already a bug filed for that somewhere, lemme see... hrm, can't find it. Please file one. -- Rex
