On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > 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 ? People first have to know why it crashes before they know where to report it. The anecdotes I gave was to indicate that people usually don't know why it crashed and in return have a general feeling of unstability. I would like to make sure that 1) these people don't have an uncomfortable feeling and 2) understand that enabling 3D has a potential to crash a system, so people might realise why it happens and where to report it. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
