Certain screensavers lock my machine up

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jan 15 21:42:02 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 12:05 -0600, Rex Dieter 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.
> 
> Most likely a combination of using NVidia's driver (+install script, vs.
> rpm's from livna/freshrpms), and OpenGL screensavers.

Weird.  A little more testing shows that even previewing IMSmap or
Ineraggregate will lock my machine up tight as a drum.

Very odd - I don't think either of those are GL, are they?

Thomas




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