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
