Screen Saver Not Funny
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Sep 21 01:04:50 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 02:13 +0200, Albert A. Modderkolk wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:36 -0400, Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > [BSOD screensaver]
> >
> > > It is a lot funnier after you realize that the crash screens are
> > > from other operating systems, not Linux...
> >
> > Not so fast. "man bsod" shows:
> >
> > "bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation of a
> > different failure mode of an operating system. Systems depicted
> > include Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, MS-DOS, AmigaDOS 1.3,
> > Linux, SCO UNIX, BSD UNIX, HPUX, Solaris, VMS, HVX/GCOS6, IBM OS/390,
> > MacOS (MacsBug, Bomb, Sad Mac, and OSX), Atari ST, Apple ][+, and NCD X
> > Terminals."
> >
> > You can also use the preview option under Preferences/screensaver to see
> > the Linux "crash".
> >
> > For me, it was creepy to see a Guru Meditation error on my Linux box. :)
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > * Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <charletiv at gmail.com>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > * Web: http://www.rickandpatty.com
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
> Where are those files??? When I do Desktop->Preferences->Screensaver
> (FC4 Gnome) all I get is an empty list :-(
>
The base install only puts on the base package. (blank/power down
monitor)
xscreensaver-base-4.21-4
You need to install the following to add the choices.
xscreensaver-extras-4.21-4
xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.21-4
The gl options adds the 3D screensavers and if you are not running a 3D
compatible video card/driver may cause X lockups.
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