Certain screensavers lock my machine up

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 18:15:14 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:13 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:06 -0600, 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?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Thomas
> > 
> 
> Sounds like an nVidia driver problem to me.
> Can you access the machine using network (ssh) or serial console once
> it's down?
> If you can, try getting the kernel log [1] and posting a bug report in
> nvnews. [2].
> 
> - Gilboa
> [1] dmesg
> [2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
> 

You might want to read this howto.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498

- Gilboa




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