On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 18:18 -0800, Gordon Charrick wrote: > The GLSlideshow screensaver can be used. You have to adjust the > settings to always show 100% of the picture and set the crossfade > duration to none. Then it simply changes from one picture to another > depending on the time you set with no special effects. Every GL screen saver that I tried out crashes. It does it's little preview in the screensaver configuration GUI, but as soon as it tries to run full screen, it crashes. I haven't managed to find the information it shows being logged anywhere, the following is a hand-typed example: X error in timetunnel: X error of failed request: GLXBadContext Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 128 Current serial number in output stream: 128 xscreensaver: 01:36:26: 0: child pid 4788 (timetunnel) exited abnormally (code -1). Using the nv video driver, on a card too old for the current nvidia driver. I did experiment with trying the nvidia-legacy package, but all the grief involved in getting it installed didn't provide any tangible benefit over the nv one (there was no obvious acceleration or alternative screen mode choices).
