Compiz crashes after plugging in external monitor

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 28 March 2011 18:19:53 valent.turkovic at gmail.com wrote:
>> is anybody using Fedora having issue with compiz crashing while
>> plugging in external monitor?
>> This issue has happen to me on Fedora 12, 13 and now on 14.
>
> I've been using compiz/emerald on top of KDE since F9, and it never ever
> crashed when plugging an external monitor. I don't do it very often (typically
> I connect the monitor while the system is off or in standby), but I do remember
> doing it on several occasions. KDE (or something else in the system) correctly
> recognizes the external monitor, and pops up a window to configure it.
> Meanwhile, compiz is completely happy.
>
> # lspci | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> # uname -r
> 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>

Thanks Marko,
glad to see compiz working for you. In the meanwhile I found this bug
already reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653085

So anybody please join in if you have this issue also to that we can
help developers fix it easier.

Cheers,
Valent.