Steve Philp wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Just a word of warning:
> >
> > I have twice had the 'penetrate' xscreensaver module wedge my display
> > totally. This has happened with a Matrox Millennium and a G200. XFree
> > 3.3.3.1.
> >
> > Restarting the X server via telnet didn't recover it. I ended up losing
> > 30 days uptime :-(
> >
> > So, if you use xcsreensaver I recommend you remove
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/penetrate
>
> Just tried it here with a G200, 3.3.3.1 SVGA server, with no problems.
> Is there something I need to wait for before it wedges?
It's very infrequent. I've seen it only three times in eight
machine-months. Once on RH5.2, twice on Mandrake 6.0. Two machines.
I assume the video hardware is being left in a whacky state which the
xfree initialisation doesn't restore, butthe BIOS does.
