Certain screensavers lock my machine up

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 15 17:47:29 UTC 2007


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 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?
> 

Of course. This is *the* reason why they aren't installed by default. It 
was even mentioned in the release notes when we switched them off.

Rahul




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