Re: Re:Xinerama problem

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Organization Damn Crazy Followers of the Horn
Message-ID <1051639364.7511.36.camel@barry>
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. :(

-Barry




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