Certain screensavers lock my machine up

[Ed Gurski]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 16:22 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:


> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > Running FC6 x86_64, updated today.  Running the drivers from the
> > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run script (I prefer my own drivers to
> > > a repos) on a GeForce 6200 LE card.
> > > 
> > > I added xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.01-5.fc6,
> > > xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.01-5.fc6, xscreensaver-extras-5.01-5.fc6 and
> > > xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.01-5.fc6 to my system.
> > > 
> > > I noticed that when I set it to display random screensavers, my machine
> > > locks up periodically.
> > > 
> > > Still trying to figure out which one(s) do it, but I wondered if anyone
> > > else is seeing this?
> > > 
> >   
> Ran into the same problem.  Stability returned when I got rid of xscreensaver-gl-extras.  I had the same result with both the Nvidia binary driver and the nv x.org driver.  I didn't try the gss packages but you could pull everything EXCEPT the standard xscreensaver package and then add the others back in one at a time to see if any of them destabilize the system.  At least on my box X crashing took the keyboard with it so I could only recover by sshing in and rebooting.
> 
> Too bad.  Some nice eye-candy in the 3d stuff.
> 
I've run into the same problem and with a little bit of digging I found
the Kaleidoscope was the screen save locking up my machine. I have
unselected it and have now been running for 24 hours without a
lock-up...

HTH...

Ed