(fedora) Certain screensavers lock my machine up

[jim tate]

Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
> fedora-list at redhat.com wrote on 15-JAN-2007 18:15:34.86
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>> Running FC6 x86_64, updated today.  Running the drivers from the
>> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run script (I prefer my own drivers to
>> a repos) on a GeForce 6200 LE card.
>>
>> I added xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.01-5.fc6,
>> xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.01-5.fc6, xscreensaver-extras-5.01-5.fc6 and
>> xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.01-5.fc6 to my system.
>>
>> I noticed that when I set it to display random screensavers, my machine
>> locks up periodically.
>>
>> Still trying to figure out which one(s) do it, but I wondered if anyone
>> else is seeing this?
>>     
> Is this simmilar to the bug I reported yesterday? see:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222643
>
>                  Jouk
>
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You my friend are a prime candidate for bad memory.
Put your #1 install disk in cdrom, and at the Boot: Linux memtest   and 
if any red info pops up at bottom of screen , you got bad memory or 
dirty memory slots.

Jim