Hi, After struggling with ATI Radeon 7500 multihead setup, I purchased a second-hand Tseng Labs ET6000 to run the second head. All works fine and dandy (after I found the PCI/AGP preference setting in my BIOS), but for some reason Gnome applications seem to be awfully unstable in Xinerama. Despite my hunting, the reason for the problem evades me, but the symptoms are as follows: several applications (Evolution, Gnome Control Center, Ximian Red Carpet) fail to start properly. Window decorations, some menus and panes appear correctly, but the application immediately hangs (does not repaint the window) and has to be killed. Also some applications (such as Galeon) work, but freeze from time to time, whereas some others (such as Nautilus) work without a hitch.
Strange thing is, that once I have killed Evolution one time, Gnome Control Center runs without a hitch, and Evolution gets into a usable state after killing it a few times. I haven't been able to find any specific reason for the behaviour, other than use of Xinerama. All problematic applications are Gnome applications and use Gnome libraries, but it seems like the libraries are used by other applications without problems. Sorry if this issue is more Gnome- than XFree86-related, but since Xinerama seems to be the keyword here, I hope someone here would have experienced the same problem and could shed some light on the issue. Best regards, Matti Airas _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
