Selecting "random" in the gnome-screensaver preferences dialogue box causes a hard lockup of the system requiring a reset to recover.
i686 with Radeon QD (7200) R100 video card
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:43:16PM -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
David Timms wrote:
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
Selecting "random" in the gnome-screensaver preferences dialogue box causes a hard lockup of the system requiring a reset to recover.
Immediately, or after preview, or after a screensaver kicks in, or eventually ?
Immediately.
This may be asking a lot depending upon how many screensavers you have installed, but I would try going through the screensaver list manually and see which of the screensavers causes a lockup (I daresay there must be at least one; it sounds to me like it's a screensaver preview that's causing the lockup). Once you have it isolated to some subset of the screensavers, file the appropriate bugs against the radeon driver. Just a thought,
- Ben
This is happening to me immediately after I load the preferences panel. I don't even get a chance to select a screensaver.
I was trying to go in and set it to "blank" but I can't even do that before the machine hangs.
The only way to recover is to do a hard reset of the machine.
Also, probably related is that if I just let the machine sit and allow the screensaver to activate, I'm still able to access the box and everything seems to work normally, except that my screen has turned very dark. It's almost as if my desktop display preferences have changed.
But, if I view the screen remotely it looks fine and if I restart the machine it's fine until the screensaver activates.
Of course I can't get in to turn off the screensaver, because going into the preferences causes a lockup!! :)
Fedora 11.90 Dell Inspiron 531S w/AMD Athlon Dual core 64-bit processor 2GB RAM 320 GB HD
Not sure about the video card. Can't figure out how to query the system to see what driver is being used.
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 21:29:16 Gryphon wrote:
This is happening to me immediately after I load the preferences
panel. I
don't even get a chance to select a screensaver.
I was trying to go in and set it to "blank" but I can't even do that
before
the machine hangs.
The only way to recover is to do a hard reset of the machine.
Also, probably related is that if I just let the machine sit and allow the screensaver to activate, I'm still able to access the box and
everything
seems to work normally, except that my screen has turned very dark.
It's
almost as if my desktop display preferences have changed.
But, if I view the screen remotely it looks fine and if I restart the machine it's fine until the screensaver activates.
Of course I can't get in to turn off the screensaver, because going
into
the preferences causes a lockup!! :)
Fedora 11.90 Dell Inspiron 531S w/AMD Athlon Dual core 64-bit processor 2GB RAM 320 GB HD
Not sure about the video card. Can't figure out how to query the
system to
see what driver is being used.
Try 'dmesg | grep VGA' without the quotes. I'm guessing Nvidia. ;)
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:29 +0200, Gryphon wrote:
Not sure about the video card. Can't figure out how to query the system to see what driver is being used.
We have a new standard procedure for that; see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging
in the section "What driver am I using?"
Good luck!
-B.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Gryphon wrote:
Of course I can't get in to turn off the screensaver, because going into the preferences causes a lockup!! :)
$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver true
Use gconftool-2 to change that to 'false' and that should do it. Or you have 'gconf-editor', most likely already on your menus, to do the same by mousing around.
Michal
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:22 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Gryphon wrote:
Of course I can't get in to turn off the screensaver, because going into the preferences causes a lockup!! :)
$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver true
Use gconftool-2 to change that to 'false' and that should do it. Or you have 'gconf-editor', most likely already on your menus, to do the same by mousing around.
In rawhide, gnome-screensaver is just a regular autostarted app, see /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-screensaver.desktop.
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