X Windows appears to lock up

[Randy Schrickel]

Richard Hally wrote:

> I have had a very similar problem when I have  the screen saver  pick  
> randomly and it gets to one named "polytopes" it locks up X and my 
> system completely.  Uncheck that one  and  see if the problem goes away.

I've seen that happen on a machine of mine when it picked an OpenGL 
screensaver, but I didn't have OpenGL drivers loaded for my video card. 
If "polytopes" is one of those, then you might want to unselect all of 
the ones that use OpenGL. Is there a list of what uses what?

randy