Subject: RE: Screensaver
From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 11:24:37 AKDT
Try running xlock like this:
xlock -modelist allnice
That should get rid of any of the opengl versions that might hang up
with the nvidia driver.
It's what i have to do on my sparc (running gentoo linux)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: volz [mailto:volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:38 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org; joe@alaskancomputers.com
> Subject: Re: Screensaver
>
>
>
> We have been having problems with screensavers since redhat8.
> Especially on the
> boxes with nvidia drivers. I haven't figured it out, the
> kernel logs usually
> have a sqawk about AGP before the system hangs. Some of the
> screensavers will
> hang every time, some sometimes, some never. You definitely
> want to avoid random
> screensaver. I have the screen go blank, life is easier that way.
>
> - Karl
>
> >Subject: Screensaver
> >From: Joe Dintzner <joe@alaskancomputers.com>
> >To: aklug@aklug.org
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >Date: 17 Oct 2003 09:28:56 -0800
> >
> >I have noticed that a certain screensaver on Redhat 9.0 (the kernel
> >how-to that resembles the Star Wars intro) will lock up my
> PC everytime
> >it runs. Anyone else having this problem?
> >
> >Anyone know how to remove that single screensaver? Google
> offers little
> >to no help.
> >
> >Speaking of Google take a look at this
> >http://www.rense.com/general43/goog.htm
> >--
> >joe dintzner
> >
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