On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Shoshana Rosenthal wrote:
MY PC, running core 1. hangs up many nights with no obvious reason to me. The message on the monitor sometime, not always is "No signal" other times the monitor is just frozen with a screensaver. Someone suggested that maybe the screensavers hang the machine. I don't know what starts the screensvars, therefore I don't know how to turn it off. Is there a simple way of turning screensaver off.
TIA Shoshana
If you're using the default window environment with fedora, under controlpanels/screensavers you can alter the settings (IIRC.. I'm not a big fedora desktop user)
We've had something similar here with latest model dell dimension 2400 desktop systems. The assumption we're working on is that some (maybe GL related) screensaver tickles a bug in the X server.
The machines are always still alive and on the network, just the gfx head is unresponsive.
We've set the screensaver to one kind (a simple one.. or just blank screen) and the problem seems to go away.
Cheers,
Al
I will agree that it is to do with the GL screensavers.
I have a problem on my home computer on one account. I have to disable all the GL screensavers. I haven't traced the problem yet so I haven't entered a bug report. This is FC-1. Anything that uses DRI from what I could see was locking the terminal.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace gets me out.
Her screen resolution is set different than the system default.
-- Robin Laing
