Re: GL screen hacks corrupting display

[Andrea Vettorello <molotov@dei.unipd.it>]

Rob VanFleet wrote:

> I'm using potato with the /dev/3dfx - Mesa combo for 3D.  When I run a GL
> screen hack like gears or morph3d, it runs accelerated and looks nice.  The
> problem is that when I exit them, the display in X is completely whacked; I
> can't do anything.  So far, I've just been Alt-F1'ing back to a console and
> hitting Ctrl-C to kill the X server.  This activity is confined to xscreensaver
> running them.  When I run them from the command line with no options, I don't
> get the corrupted display, only when I run them with '- root', as xscreensaver
> does.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens, how to prevent it, or at least if there is a
> way to reset the X display without restarting the server?
>

Try to resize the screen size with the CTRL ALT and numpad minus and plus key, but
i should remove the package xscreensaver-gl to avoid problems...

Hope this help.


Andrea