system hang on screen saver

[Elliot F.]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 21:42 +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 23.10.2004, 13:09 -0600 schrieb Travis Hagglund:
> > I am running an Asus P4C800C motherboard with ati Radeon 9700 video card
> > OS is ubuntu with 2.6.8.1-3-686-smp kernel and fglrx video driver.
> > I have dual head set-up so a separate screen saver comes up for each
> > screen.  The system is regularly freezing on the screen saver.  The only
> > way to recover is to do a hard reboot.
> 
> Just out of the blue I would suspect the fglrx-driver from ati. Ati's
> drivers sucks, and there binary-only linux driver sucks even more. Try
> disabling all opengl-using xscreensaver, or just deinstalling the
> package 'xscreensaver-gl' via synaptic. I think you shouldn't see those
> hangs anymore, but be aware from opengl-using apps.

I'm getting some hangs, too.  It's only when I leave my laptop for a
bit, so I'm assuming it's a screensaver issue, too.  I've disabled all
of the screensavers to see if it still does it.

Oddly enough, I had hangs before on the maze screensaver, so it's not
just the gl screensavers, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's the
not-so-good fglrx driver, as you say.  I'm using the normal ati driver
(with a radeon 9000 mobility).