On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > 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 :) The 3D screensavers don't seem to be the big problem always. The shipped ones are pretty dumb in terms of 3D usage anyway. We've actually had a longer history of problems with servers because there are utterly weird functions in X that come under the "hindsight" category which only Screen savers use > 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 fix the 3D drivers - they are definitely getting a lot more stable now
