> >On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 12:44, Jared Smith wrote: >> I had that problem with an older motherboard with on-board video. Every >> time it would try to start a 3d screensaver, the machine would hang. I >> just set my screensaver to blank the screen, and that fixed the problem. >> On 2 Apr 2003, Matt Whiteley wrote: > >I don't think this is the case, as the screensaver will run even 3d ones >fine for awhile and will then lock up later on. The lockup doesn't have to occur immediately upon starting a particular screensaver. On another chipset (Savage4) until the driver was fixed I always got a lockup after a short period of time with a particular screensaver (blaster). Like you there was _nothing_ that I could do except reboot. It was a complete freeze. My workaround was, similar to what was suggested by Jared, to disable that particular screensaver. Oisin Feeley
