On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 14:02, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 12:57, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> > >Note that this setup worked just fine w/ RH7.3 (XFree86 4.2.something).
> > >It simply broke after upgrading to RH9 / XFree86 4.3.0.
> >
> > Fixed in 4.3.0-5 as stated many times over the last few days.
> > Upgrade via rawhide. See list archives for my detailed 4.3.0-5
> > announcement 2 days ago.
>
> Yep, I'm all caught up on this thread. I just joined the list in the
> middle of the discussion and missed a few articles in the archives.
>
> > >Xinerama had problems under XFree86 4.2 though. It would hang apps like
> > >red-carpet and I noticed other strange problems. I'm hoping the
> > >implementation under XFree86 4.3 works better (although I'd still trade
> > >a working dual-head for Xinerama at the moment :).
> >
> > If red-carpet hangs, then it is a Red Carpet bug most likely.
> > Not all applications are Xinerama friendly or aware. Your best
> > bet if having any problems with any application under Xinerama,
> > is to report the problem to the application author.
>
> I did that but unfortunately, Ximian pointed the finger at Xinerama and
> closed the issue. :(
If Red Carpet hangs with Xinerama and not without Xinerama, then I'd
strongly guess it's an X or Xlib bug of some sort.
Not that Red Carpet might not be buggy, but it would be hard to be
buggy with that symptom.
But it's the kind of X bug that we're going to trouble tracking down,
unfortunately.
Regards,
Owen
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