F11: Screensaver - causes system to hang, daily

Simon Slater pyevet at iinet.net.au
Wed Nov 18 20:45:15 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 13:14 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I tried GSS with a blank screen and everything
> else I could think of and it does not prevent
> the hanging problem.  But if I completely disable
> the GSS, i.e. uncheck both:
> 
> (1) "Activate screensaver when computer is idle"
> (2) "Lock screen when screensaver is active"
> 
> My system has been running F11 for a week now,
> and it has not hung at all.  Unfortunately, my
> computer is without security, short of logging out.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
> My system is a ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 if that helps.
> 
> FWIW,
> Dan
> 
I have the same situation with KDE on F11.  However my hardware is a
PII233/512 and a S3ViRGE/GX2 graphics card.  I thought it was just my
old hardware.

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Simon Slater
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