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[Bug 361649] Re: Screensaver 'lattice' causes immediate Xorg freeze/crash

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From: Mike Hicks <hick0088@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:09:54 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 361649 <361649@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I also experienced a GUI crash with the lattice screensaver on what
lspci reports is a "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300
(PCIE)]".

Fortunately, my system didn't do a hard hang, and I was still able to
use an existing SSH session to manage the box a little and determine
which process had hung the X server.  Unfortunately, neither killing the
lattice process nor the X server was able to bring the GUI back to life,
so I had to shut down the box.

I would reiterate a comment that has been made on the Freedesktop.org
bug: Please, please, please use the xscreensaver-gl and rss-glx
screensavers as test programs to ensure that video drivers and mesa
libraries are functional before releasing updates.  People like pretty
screensavers, so they get enabled on *lots* of boxes in the real world,
so any bugs that get triggered by them will affect many, many people.

Thanks.

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Screensaver 'lattice' causes immediate Xorg freeze/crash
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