Re: reducing distribution CD count

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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
 > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
 > 
 > > Also, more people run screen savers than tuxracer, so that's where the
 > > video driver crashes tend to occur.  Then they blame me and I am sad.
 > 
 > Hehe, I've had several people complain about 'random' crashes, usually 
 > when they arrived at work in the morning or came back from coffee. All of 
 > them related to 3D screensavers :)
 > 
 > Maybe disabling 3D screensavers by default (and/or a warning about the 
 > potential to crash when people open the screensaver configuration) would 
 > reduce the uncomfortable (unstable) feeling people got when using Linux in 
 > these cases.

Or how about just fixing the drivers so they don't lock up ?
(reports to upstream DRI bugzilla at freedesktop.org, or $binary_driver_vendor_of_choice
 accordingly)

		Dave


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