On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:03, Micheal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:08, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 02:27, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > It would appear that on Jul 18, Rob Brown-Bayliss did say: > > > > > > > I have just changed my screen saver to a blank screen, it was an OGL > > > > screen saver so lets see. > > > > > > Well I hope that works for you. In my case I found I could let power > > > management do the screen blanking with the old kernel, just as long as > > > > > > So far so good. It seems to be working, as in no crashes for two > > days. But hell, screen savers causing a total lock up? Thats scary. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Rob Brown-Bayliss > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but > > that he cannot believe anyone else. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Yep, had the same problems here, went to a blank screensaver and no > lockups. I did find, however that it was just X locked. I "could" ssh > into the box and safely reboot it. > > My poor .02 > > Micheal > The problem seems (from postings on this list) to be related to use of GL. If you pick a non-GL screensaver it usually is ok according to those that have had similar problems.