X restarts under 8.04 LTS - by itself after an Error, message - WHY?

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> It only occurs when the system is idle for some period of time, several
> tasks are running but iconized. Results  follow:
>
> jay at polar:~$ glxinfo|grep -i direct
> direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting
> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> jay at polar:~$


I had a similar problem a long time ago - try setting your screensaver
to blank(none) and see if it goes away.  If so, look for any
screensavers installed that use 3D effects (eg, have "glx" in the
name).

Chris