Package: xscreensaver
Version: 4.21-3
Severity: wishlist
Some hacks crash / fail for me. Most notably all the GL ones, since I have
recently run into problems with my nVidia drivers. That a hack fails is not
necessarily because the hack itself is broken.
When a hack crashes / refuses to run,
* Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
bubble3d: display :0.0 does not support the GLX extension.
Sounds like your XFree86-4.conf is not setup correctly.
Instead, I would prefer if XScreensaver kept a black list of
dysfunctional hacks. When a hack
-Original Message-
From: Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:29:19 +0200
Subject: Re: Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks
* Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0
This is an idiotic idea. Fix your machine instead.
All the time spent implementing this crazy blacklist detection system
of yours would be better spent getting your video driver functioning
properly.
--
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 17 May 2005 04:21:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks
This is an idiotic idea. Fix your machine instead.
All the time spent implementing this crazy blacklist detection system
of yours would be better spent getting your video
Johan Walles wrote:
Also, if all the GL hacks can detect that my display doesn't support
the GLX extension that they need, how come XScreensaver can't? And
disable the GL hacks automatically?
That message is not being printed by the hacks; it's coming from deep in
the bowels of libGL. I
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From: Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 17 May 2005 04:52:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks
Johan Walles wrote:
Also, if all the GL hacks can detect that my
Le mardi 17 mai 2005 à 05:32 -0700, Johan Walles a écrit :
Here's an example of how to detect X server extensions:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/programs/xdpyinfo/xdpyinfo.c?rev=1.9view=markup
Look at the print_extension_info() function. Walking through the
extensions list looking for
Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:05:22 +0200
Subject: Re: Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks
Le mardi 17 mai 2005 à 05:32 -0700, Johan Walles a écrit :
Here's an example of how to detect X server extensions:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg
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