Certain screensavers lock my machine up

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jan 15 21:29:55 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

Where?  I've Googled for 

screensaver site:fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US

and gotten nothing.




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