xscreensaver and xorg problems

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:04:18 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Can you tell me the software versions you were using on FC2 vs. FC3,
i.e. xfree/xorg gcc glibc xscreensaver and perhaps gtk+?

When I first encountered this problem, the cure was to compile gtk+
with a particular version of gcc., but then the problem returned even
on that version of gcc/gtk+.

-- 
 Collins