On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:12, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > [Using Xandros 2.0/Debian] > > I have installed and uninstalled a number of programs -- all of them either > from XN (with only the two XN sources) or else by recompiling source tarballs > (all of which go into /usr/local -- which has no effect, I am told, on the > operation or stability of Xandros). For some strange reason, my screensavers > (both the KDE screensavers and the GLX rss-glx screensavers -- both from XN) > no longer work EXCEPT for "Euphoria GL" (which works fine). None of the other > screensavers work. I've tested them all (by clicking on the "test" button at > the bottom of the list). They all used to work perfectly well. Any idea what > could be wrong, and how I can reactivate them. Is it some file that I need to > configure? I tried to reinstall both "kscreensaver" and "rss-glx" in apt-get > with the --reinstall option. They reinstalled fine, but the screensavers > still don't work (except for Euphoria GL). There is nothing wrong with my > glx. I checked by typing "glxinfo" in the console.
[ ... ] IIRC: Some weeks ago rss-glx crashed my machine (powerpc) after xscreensaver started the stuff from rss-glx. I.e. after some of the rss-glx screensavers had started I could not use my keyboard anymore after some minutes: I had to press the powerbutton to shut the machine down. I didn't remove rss-glx, but simply removed the entries in .xscreensaver for rss-glx. /usr/share/doc/rss-glx/README.xscreensaver: regarding *running* rss-glx ****************************** EITHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Run /usr/bin/rss-glx_install.pl, which will look at your existing ~/.xscreensaver and add any missing entries. You probably want to back that file up as the script is only lightly tested :) OR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manually add the following lines after the line that starts with "programs:" in ~/.xscreensaver. -- Cut Here -- GL: "Cyclone" cyclone --root \n\ GL: "Euphoria" euphoria --root \n\ GL: "Fieldlines" fieldlines --root \n\ GL: "Flocks" flocks --root \n\ GL: "Flux" flux --root \n\ GL: "Helios" helios --root \n\ GL: "Lattice" lattice --root \n\ GL: "Plasma" plasma --root \n\ GL: "Skyrocket" skyrocket --root \n\ GL: "Solarwinds" solarwinds --root \n\ GL: "Colorfire" colorfire --root \n\ GL: "Hufo's Smoke" hufo_smoke --root \n\ GL: "Hufo's Tunnel" hufo_tunnel --root \n\ GL: "Sundancer2" sundancer2 --root \n\ GL: "BioF" biof --root \n\ GL: "BusySpheres" busyspheres --root \n\ GL: "SpirographX" spirographx --root \n\ GL: "MatrixView" matrixview --root \n\ -- End Here -- ***************************************** just a hint ... HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]