Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

> (...)
> Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my 
system---and I
> mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to 
switch to a
> text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc.  Nothing 
works.

Same here. Glad you mentioned it, 'cause I thought it had to do with 
my card having been a bit on the cheap side (an ATI Rage 128 family 
member). I've managed to gain a lot more stability by disabling 3 
screensavers specifically (through xscreensaver-demo): "StarWars", 
"Gears" and "Gears (planetary)". Now I can manage to go almost one 
week without rebooting.

Wine also gives me some grief, I could never run "winmine.exe" without 
a crash just like these we're discussing, but I'm not sure the reason 
is the same.

These accelerated drivers are alpha-quality at best. They are, 
unfortunately, at the base of current Linux GUI desktop systems, one 
more reason why Linux is still very clearly and solidly years behind 
Windows on the desktop, for most users.

I won't be converting my dual-boot machine to an all-Linux one any 
time soon...

Carlos