Re: Screensaver fails!
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:12, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> [Using Xandros 2.0/Debian]
>
> I have installed and uninstalled a number of programs -- all of them either
> from XN (with only the two XN sources) or else by recompiling source tarballs
> (all of which go into /usr/local -- which has no effect, I am told, on the
> operation or stability of Xandros). For some strange reason, my screensavers
> (both the KDE screensavers and the GLX rss-glx screensavers -- both from XN)
> no longer work EXCEPT for "Euphoria GL" (which works fine). None of the other
> screensavers work. I've tested them all (by clicking on the "test" button at
> the bottom of the list). They all used to work perfectly well. Any idea what
> could be wrong, and how I can reactivate them. Is it some file that I need to
> configure? I tried to reinstall both "kscreensaver" and "rss-glx" in apt-get
> with the --reinstall option. They reinstalled fine, but the screensavers
> still don't work (except for Euphoria GL). There is nothing wrong with my
> glx. I checked by typing "glxinfo" in the console.
[ ... ]
IIRC:
Some weeks ago rss-glx crashed my machine (powerpc) after xscreensaver
started the stuff from rss-glx.
I.e. after some of the rss-glx screensavers had started I could not use
my keyboard anymore after some minutes: I had to press the powerbutton
to shut the machine down.
I didn't remove rss-glx, but simply removed the entries in .xscreensaver
for rss-glx.
/usr/share/doc/rss-glx/README.xscreensaver:
regarding *running* rss-glx
******************************
EITHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run /usr/bin/rss-glx_install.pl, which will look at your existing
~/.xscreensaver and add any missing entries. You probably want to back that
file up as the script is only lightly tested :)
OR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manually add the following lines after the line that starts with "programs:"
in ~/.xscreensaver.
-- Cut Here --
GL: "Cyclone" cyclone --root \n\
GL: "Euphoria" euphoria --root \n\
GL: "Fieldlines" fieldlines --root \n\
GL: "Flocks" flocks --root \n\
GL: "Flux" flux --root \n\
GL: "Helios" helios --root \n\
GL: "Lattice" lattice --root \n\
GL: "Plasma" plasma --root \n\
GL: "Skyrocket" skyrocket --root \n\
GL: "Solarwinds" solarwinds --root \n\
GL: "Colorfire" colorfire --root \n\
GL: "Hufo's Smoke" hufo_smoke --root \n\
GL: "Hufo's Tunnel" hufo_tunnel --root \n\
GL: "Sundancer2" sundancer2 --root \n\
GL: "BioF" biof --root \n\
GL: "BusySpheres" busyspheres --root \n\
GL: "SpirographX" spirographx --root \n\
GL: "MatrixView" matrixview --root \n\
-- End Here --
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just a hint ...
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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