Sorry for posting to the list before I had exhausted my options. I found the answer on the xscreensaver web site FAQ.
On versions of xscreesaver < 3.34 (as in the ones included in Mandrake) there is a default memory limit (to protect against runaway memory) of 50M. Nvidia cards send a false reading to xscreensaver indicating they are using > 128M of memory when trying to run a GL screensaver and the program quits. It is safe to turn off this feature by editing the .xscreensaver file in you home directory and changing the "memoryLimit:" from "50M" to "0". And viola! -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 12:24, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > xscreensaver runs well, so does my 3D acceleration. (I have a geforce2 > card) Games run excellently. But I've never managed to get > xscreensaver-gl to work. > > I get the following error for any of them, this one is for atlantis for > example: > > "atlantis: couldn't create GL context for visual 0x21. > xscreensaver: child ppd 9905 (atlantis) exited abnormally (code 1)." > > What's going on and how can I fix this? > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > ------------=_1008091488-29021-1530 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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