Certain screensavers lock my machine up
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Tue Jan 30 03:58:17 UTC 2007
David G. Miller wrote:
> Ed Gurski <ed at gurski.com> wrote:
>
>> I've run into the same problem and with a little bit of digging I found
>> the Kaleidoscope was the screen save locking up my machine. I have
>> unselected it and have now been running for 24 hours without a
>> lock-up...
>>
>> HTH...
>>
>>
> I just tried the Kaleidoscope preview for about a minute before
> replying to your post and it worked just fine. Could be there are a
> swarm of separate bugs that are dependent on things like the specific
> video card, nv driver vs. Nvidia binary driver, amount of installed
> memory, speed of the box, phase of the moon, etc. I'll try running
> just Kaleidoscope for a while and see if I get a lock up.
>
> Dave
>
Just a quick follow up... I've been running Kaleidoscope as my only
screensaver since sending the previous message (01/15/2007 05:10 PM).
No problems. I rebooted to pick up the 2895 kernel so one reboot during
the period but current uptime is a hair over nine days.
Cheers,
Dave
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