On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Bob Arendt wrote: >Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:49:34 -0700 >From: Bob Arendt <rda@rincon.com> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: X error, user session ends abruptly > >Bob, >Probably some of the OpenGL screeensavers are causing the crash. > >For immediate relief, set a single screensaver (don't let xscreensaver >cycle through the list). You can use xscreensaver-demo to do this. > >You can also use xscreensaver-demo to manually cycle through the >screensavers to confirm this is the problem. > >I've got this happening on any multiscreen (matrox) machines with GLX >support enabled in /etc/X11/XF86Config. My solution has been to comment >out these lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config: > # Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support > # Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface > # Load "v4l" # Video4Linux >Then the OpenGL stuff can't crash the Xserver. Radeon 9x00 isn't supported in 2D, let alone in 3D, so OpenGL screensavers aren't the problem here... -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
