Certain screensavers lock my machine up

[David G. Miller]

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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