[ltp] Dual monitor setup on T42p, anyone? (partially solved)

[Yury Prilutsky]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 11:34 pm, Yury Prilutsky wrote:
> For what it's worth, in continuation of my previous quest...
> I have installed ATI's fglrx driver and got two monitors working LCD and
> CRT (no luck with the DVI still).
>
> The problem I encountered was that when I configured it for one bid desktop
> (like what I had before with Xinerama) I got the machine hang a couple of
> times in the first hour. The machine was actually alive, the picture on the
> screen was frozen and the mouse and the keyboard were dead. I could ssh
> into it and there was no X running!
> Anyway I tried another setup with two separate desktop and so far it's been
> running OK for the whole day. It's not really what I would want ideally but
> much better than a single screen ;-)
>

I new I should not have done it! As soon as I posted the previous message, my 
machine got killed again. I could ssh into it and restart KDE with "init 4" 
however I couldn't get the text console back.
Anyway, the culprit turned out to be OpenOffice. It consistently is having 
this problem with the ATI driver. Once I switched back to Xorg's radeon 
driver, OO works fine. Now, that's a tough choice: one screen or having to do 
documents under Word/Win4Lin ;-(
Any ideas what may be causing this problem?

Thanks,
Yury