xscreensaver and xorg problems

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:17:52 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:24:54PM -0500, Net Llama! took 29 lines to write:
> > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > Can you tell me the software versions you were using on FC2 vs. FC3,
> > > > i.e. xfree/xorg gcc glibc xscreensaver and perhaps gtk+?
> > >
> > > I don't have any FC2 boxes any more, sorry.   You can check and see what
> > > shipped with FC2 thoguh. FC3 has:
> > >
> > > xorg-6.8.1
> > > gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3
> > > glibc-2.3.3-74
> > > gtk+-1.2.10-33
> > > gtk2-2.4.13-9
> > >
> > > > 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+.
> > >
> > > That doesn't make any sense seeing as how xscreensaver isn't a gtk app.
> >
> > Not necessarily. xscreensaver-demo is usually linked to libgtk:
> >
> > $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-demo | grep -i gtk
> >         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d06000)
> 
> Well, yea, but that's not what is running when his box is locking up.
> 

Some on the gentoo list believe that this is a problem with the sis650
driver in xorg, but I haven't found any google references that match
my problem. Until I've screwed awound (wascally wabbi!t) with gdb I
won't know what module is failing.

-- 
 Collins