reducing distribution CD count

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:36:17PM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:

 > > And to debug 3D. We no longer have any way to debug 3D problems on Fedora
 > > with packages we know the client side of and build form.
 > 
 > In my experience, xscreensaver is going to give the 3d hardware a much
 > more extensive workout than any given game.  Maybe this has changed in
 > the latest Rawhide (I haven't checked) but it used to be that a Gnome
 > install came with the full complement of 3D savers.
 > 
 > Also, more people run screen savers than tuxracer, so that's where the
 > video driver crashes tend to occur.  Then they blame me and I am sad.

Don't feel sad, read DRI source code, and shift the blame accordingly :-)
On a serious note, in my experience 3d screensaver crashes have been
driver problems _every_ time I've looked into them, whether its been
DRI, or binary drivers.

		Dave