Bug#296207: xserver-xfree86: Hard lock-up (no ssh) on running xanalogtv screensaver
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 01:17 +0000, Edward Miller wrote:
>
> When I run the xanalogtv screen hack of the xscreensaver package, I get
> a hard lock-up of my whole system. It is not even possible to ssh into
> it from another machine. This happens reliably although the time that
> elapses before system crash varies from a second to a couple of minutes.
>
> I have a Matrox G400 Max. I have tried using the plain mga driver, and
> also mga with usefbdev (my default config), and many other permutations
> involving agpgart, HAL module, XT-PIC and APIC interrupts. All have had
> the same reult.
Does
Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
work around the problem?
> A configuration detail is that I have been using xanalogtv in "Desktop
> Image grab" mode but have not configured it to grab from a video capture
> device.
I assume it still happens if you configure it to only use images from a
directory instead?
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