On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 11:54, Peter Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 12:32, Onsi Fakhouri wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on an athlon 800 with 256 Mb of RAM.  My video
> > card is a dual head Matrox G450 and I'm using Xinerama.  The error I'm
> > experiencing is erratic.  When I start up evolution 1.0.3 the main
> > window pops up but the summary doesn't get displayed.  The toolbar and
> > sidebar appear but, where the summary should be, I get corrupted a
> > postage-stamp sized viewing area embedded in the main window.  Clicking
> > on anything at this stage causes evolution to hang - the only way out is
> > to kill it, and the only way to restart it is to kill all it's running
> > components individually.  What's frustrating is that, though this
> > happens most of the time, it doesn't always happen - sometimes evolution
> > comes up fine.
> 
> Evolution has problems with Xinerama. I don't think anyone really
> understands how to fix them. We know about it but we're probably not
> going to get any work done on it for 1.2. I think these things work
> somewhat better overall in GNOME 2 so the GNOME 2 port will hopefully be
> better in this regard. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Actually I'm fairly certain this particular issue is bug in the xinerama
implementation in the matrox drivers.  I don't remember the details but
I'm sure you could did them up on the xfree mailing lists.

--Larry


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