Xscreensaver crashes system

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Tue Apr 24 17:33:41 UTC 2007


On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:43:58 -0400
John Rooker <john_rooker at jwrooker.com> wrote:

JR> It locked up Feisty the other day when set to random, but it has
JR> been OK set to blank screen.  
JR> 
JR> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:38 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
JR> > Can anyone explain why Xscreensaver might cause edgy and feisty to
JR> > crash after about 20-30 minutes?  Has this happened to anyone
JR> > else?  I'm not 100% sure this is the cuase, but am getting awfully
JR> > suspicious about it. Paul
JR> > 

Possibly a GL problem -- I'm not sure about xscreensaver, but certainly
kscreensaver has an option to exclude the GL savers from the list.

James

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