On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:21:13 -0800 (PST) Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > morning! > > > > i've had another little screen/keyboard/mouse lock while running > > xscreensaver-4.0 with direct rendering enabled. i've encountered this > > kind of thing before, when the extrusion hack would break things. at > > least it was kind enough to leave its locked image on the screen, so > > i could readily disable it. > > > > problem now is that the screen is blank when the thing dies (machine > > continues to operate perfectly well, and it does not seem to have > > anything to do with the daily crom run, as we had suspected, in that > > this time it happened several hours after the cron run), it leaves > > the screen blank. > > > > so the next guess is that it's a particular module. > > > > there are no errors in any logfiles i can find. so now i need to come > > up with a way to log the activity of xscreensaver itself, as it > > cycles through the modules. nothing i've tried works. > > > > ideas? > > > > i tried to email jamie directly about this, but the mail doesn't get > > accepted on the other end, probably because i'm doing the > > drippingwithirony smtp here, but incoming is hosted elsewhere. > > I too, have noticed that my box occasionally locks up when Xscreensaver > is chugging away. I've tried to find a pattern, or something getting > logged, but there is nothing. Let me know if you make any headway. I should have written it down. A year or so ago I discovered that one of the screensaver choices (if you take the default random choices) is totally broken. At the time I removed it, but I can't remember which one. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 + xfce + sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
