FWIW I also had what seemed to be total lockups with the screensaver enabled on rh7.2. I eventually realized that the OS was fine but the screensaver had wedged X so badly I couldn't restart it. I still have screenblanking enabled with no problems.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:32:10PM -0500, ABrady wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:20:31 -0700 > "Joe Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I disable the screensaver in Redhat 7.3? I wasn't able > > to determine where it was started from. I installed it with > > all (mostly) default choices. > > > > I want to do this because I have a hunch that it causes my > > machine to lock up completely. > > Assuming you use either KDE or Gnome, it will be in the Settings menu > and/or control panel for that WM. > > That would be a good place to start looking for lockups. I've seen > those things cause lockups on a number of machines, including one of my > own. I am able to safely run most by manually running xscreensaver at > startup. But I couldn't find any way to turn some of them off in either > desktop without turning them all off. With xscreensaver they can be > controlled individually, and it can even be made to run whatever KDE > screensavers are installed in any WM: Gnome/Sawfish, KDE, IceWM, FVWM, > XFCE, etc. > > -- > Plagiarism saves time. > > > > > --__--__-- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
