Orcan Ogetbil wrote:


> Later on, I told my colleagues that KDE improved a lot since 4.0 and
> they should give a try to 4.3. For a demonstration I installed KDE on
> my machine. I logged in and the first thing to do was to setup the
> dual head. I opened System Settings and as soon as I clicked on the
> Display, X crashed and I was thrown out. It was really a bad
> experience for a demonstration (kind of like Bill Gates' WinME video).
> I logged back in and ran krandrtray. This one crashed X too. I clicked
> on whatever I can find regarding the desktop setup and I found that
> everything on KDE that is related to the X settings crashes X.
>
> I then had to spend 15 minutes to write an xorg.conf file from scratch
> to make the dual head work, while people were making comments in the
> lines of "this is why I don't like KDE"... :(

X crashing is almost certainly a driver bug (ie, querying randr items from
the X server should be a relatively safe operation).