Screen Saver freezes the system completely

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 3 23:33:14 UTC 2007


On 11/03/2007 04:13 PM, Allan Valeriano wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just installed Ubuntu Gutsy and when I tried to change the screen
> saver, I got bugged.
> While searching for the screen saver I liked the most, my computer got
> completely frost when I passed through the Braid screen saver.
> I tried everything not to push the button and restart the computer (mostly
> ctrl+alt+del and ctrl+alt+backspace), and after about 2 min, it restarted by
> itself.
> When I logged in again, everything worked fine, till I went to eat something
> and the screen saver started running Braid.
> After that, the system froze completely and I *had* to push the restart
> button.
> 
> Has anybody had the same bug?
> I had this *ONLY* with Braid screen saver. All the other screen savers seem
> ok.
> 
> --Valeriano
> 
> 

Works just fine here: 7.10, 1.4Ghz CPU, 512Mb memory.






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