On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:48 +1000, Ric de France wrote: > Iain, > > On 5/11/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is a wierd one - xscreensaver-demo locks up my laptop (for certain > > screensavers only) but the actual screensaver works fine. > > > > eg, I see a working screensaver which is, say, BioF, so I unlock the > > screen, log in and then go to xscreensaver-demo, and the whole laptop > > locks up (because BioF is automatically selected). Can't even ping it. > > > > But for others, say anemone, it all works fine. > > > > I don't quite know what to do next, given that I can't do anything until > > I reboot, which is too late to see whats going on... > > > > Any ideas? > > I had a similar problem a while ago... it is basically around the GL > screensavers that problems arise. I don't know if this was related to > me using the nVidia drivers, but I found that if you recompile the > xscreensaver package with lower optimisations, you don't get > lockups... I don't know how to debug this to prove it to you... I'm > just telling you my experiences... > > I found that it was most reliable just to run the compilation with: > > CFLAGS="-O2" > > HTH,
I have seen it said that the AGP implementation can have something to do with it. I suggest a google on "agp opengl xscreensaver" or similar may help. disabling the opengl screensavers will at least get you through the day :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
