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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
