xscreensaver and xorg problems

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> In a brief moment of lucidty, Collins Richey proclaimed:
> > Just curious. I have an annoying little problem with xscreensaver and
> > xorg that I've been pursuing on the gentoo lists and bugzilla. Certain
> > screensavers (BouncingCow is one) and glxgears crash the X server.
> > I've tried a number of recommended solutions (lots of recompiles,
> > different versions of xorg, sxcreensaver, gtk+, glibc options, etc.),
> > but no joy.
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone has has encountered this type of problem?
>
> this sounds a *lot* like what I've been seeing. i've been able to eliminate
> enough of the different "hacks" that it now seems stable

I've had something similar happen on one of my laptops that was running
FC2.  Some screensavers would cause a lockup.  It seems to have gone away
since upgrading to FC3 though.

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