OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Jul 19 22:30:23 UTC 2004


Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 02:27, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
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>>It would appear that on Jul 18, Rob Brown-Bayliss did say:
>>
>>> I have just changed my screen saver to a blank screen, it was an OGL
>>> screen saver so lets see.
>>
>>Well I hope that works for you. In my case I found I could let power
>>management do the screen blanking with the old kernel, just as long as/
>>
> 
> 
> So far so good.  It seems to be working, as in no crashes for  two 
> days.  But hell, screen savers causing a total lock up?  Thats scary.

Run something like gkrellm and wait for the screen saver to start.  Then
hit a key and look at the CPU load.  Some of them are REALLY nasty!
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