Screen Saver lock up

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 31 16:04:28 UTC 2008


On 03/31/2008 07:33 AM, Willis Taylor wrote:
> I have just built a new unit with a Biostar K8M800 mainboard, AMD Athlon
> 64 X2 4000 processor and 2 5i2mb sticks of DDR2.  The Ubuntu I installed
> is v.7.10, 32bit and it runs like a top except that I selected the Ant
> Spotlight screensaver and it locked up immediately.  If I go the GUI
> route to select anything else it locks up and I loose the screen after
> about 5 sec. to multiple horizontal lines.  If I allow the machine to
> rest for five minutes it goes to the screen saver and I get the
> horizontal lines.  Can anyone give me a command line to disarm this? 
> Thank you for any help.
> 

cd /usr/lib/xscreensaver
sudo rm antspotlight

That will remove the screensaver.






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