lucid screensavers

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred A Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> writes:

    Fred> On 03/29/2010 11:12 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> I've tried both xscreensaver, which seeems to have some screensavers
    >> that crash X, and gnome-screensaver, which on my system doesn't seem
    >> to have any screensavers (except blank) at all.  Is there something
    >> I'm supposed to install that I don't know about?  Or are the
    >> gnome-screensaver maintainers just waiting until the screensavers work
    >> to have gnome-screensaver run them?
    >> 

    Fred> Laura, what make video chipset is in the 'puter? The
    Fred> answer(s) you seek depend on that info.

It's a Thinkpad r50e.  Googling gives:

Intel 855GM AGP 4X  Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Intel 

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