[expert] GL screensaver crash
Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with mouse or keyboard activity. I have the screensaver set to activate after 7 mins. However, when I am running two bittorrent processes, to feed the upload, when I go away for a bit and look back, the screensaver is frozen. I cannot do anything with ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-F*; only alt-sysreq + s,u,b will unlock the machine. This seems to be the circumstances that cause the lockup but I have not tested exhaustively. The GL screensavers always seemed to give me trouble in the past but I thought they would work, this time. Has anyone dealt with this before? Thanks. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GL screensaver crash
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:25 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one > or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which > are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with > mouse or keyboard activity. I have the screensaver set to activate > after 7 mins. However, when I am running two bittorrent processes, to > feed the upload, when I go away for a bit and look back, the screensaver > is frozen. I cannot do anything with ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del, > ctrl-alt-F*; only alt-sysreq + s,u,b will unlock the machine. > > This seems to be the circumstances that cause the lockup but I have not > tested exhaustively. The GL screensavers always seemed to give me > trouble in the past but I thought they would work, this time. Has anyone > dealt with this before? Thanks. > > Rolf What about other GL stuff? Does it cause your system to lockup? Games, apps, etc... Might be something hardware related like memory or heat. -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GL screensaver crash
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:25 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with mouse or keyboard activity. I have the screensaver set to activate after 7 mins. However, when I am running two bittorrent processes, to feed the upload, when I go away for a bit and look back, the screensaver is frozen. I cannot do anything with ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-F*; only alt-sysreq + s,u,b will unlock the machine. This seems to be the circumstances that cause the lockup but I have not tested exhaustively. The GL screensavers always seemed to give me trouble in the past but I thought they would work, this time. Has anyone dealt with this before? Thanks. Rolf What about other GL stuff? Does it cause your system to lockup? Games, apps, etc... Might be something hardware related like memory or heat. I don't much play games. Tuxracer, glxgears, Frozen Bubbles work for me. Rather, in 9.2, with a carried-over /home directory, Tuxracer would not start until I changed this part of ~/.tuxracer/options thus: # data_dir # # The location of the Tux Racer data files # set data_dir "/usr/share/games/tuxracer/" The old data_dir was /usr/share/tuxracer and the console error told me it could not find it. If I start Frozen Bubbles on one desktop and Tuxracer on another, Tuxracer plays (with Frozen Bubbles soundtrack) until I exit Tuxracer. The screen freezes but all the ctrl-alt keys work and I have to restart X. This seems more a matter of the unlikely combination of both games running at the same time. I suspect something about the radeon driver or, maybe something to do with the interaction of GL and a busy nic. The radeon has interrupt 3 while the nic shares 5 with the onboard CMI8738-MC6 sound chip. Thanks for the ideas. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
