reducing distribution CD count
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 01:18:42 UTC 2005
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Hehe, I've had several people complain about 'random' crashes, usually
> when they arrived at work in the morning or came back from coffee. All of
> them related to 3D screensavers :)
>
> Maybe disabling 3D screensavers by default (and/or a warning about the
> potential to crash when people open the screensaver configuration) would
> reduce the uncomfortable (unstable) feeling people got when using Linux in
> these cases.
Or how about just fixing the drivers so they don't lock up ?
(reports to upstream DRI bugzilla at freedesktop.org, or $binary_driver_vendor_of_choice
accordingly)
Dave
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