OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Jul 20 01:41:14 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:03, Micheal wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:08, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 02:27, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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> > > It would appear that on Jul 18, Rob Brown-Bayliss did say:
> > >
> > > > I have just changed my screen saver to a blank screen, it was an OGL
> > > > screen saver so lets see.
> > >
> > > Well I hope that works for you. In my case I found I could let power
> > > management do the screen blanking with the old kernel, just as long as
> >
> >
> > So far so good. It seems to be working, as in no crashes for two
> > days. But hell, screen savers causing a total lock up? Thats scary.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Rob Brown-Bayliss
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but
> > that he cannot believe anyone else.
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
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> >
>
> Yep, had the same problems here, went to a blank screensaver and no
> lockups. I did find, however that it was just X locked. I "could" ssh
> into the box and safely reboot it.
>
> My poor .02
>
> Micheal
>
The problem seems (from postings on this list) to be related to use of
GL. If you pick a non-GL screensaver it usually is ok according to
those that have had similar problems.
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