From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: The 'polytopes' screensaver appears to hard hang X on various 'standard' Dell desktops under FC1. Since the default screensaver setting is -still- "randomly pick from all screensavers", this causes 'screensaver roulette'. When hung, the system is still remotely accessible, but recognizes no local keyboard input, even when polytopes (and xscreensaver) are killed. I've been unable to find any way to restore a hung session short of killing X itself, along with all of the user's currently open applications and work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-4.14-2 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Choose 'polytopes' as your screensaver (or wait for you number to come up in screensaver roulette) Additional info: The several systems I've seen effected by this all appear to have a "ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra" video card, for what it's worth. Changing the default selected screensavers to not include 'unstable' ones like polytopes would be an acceptable temporary workaround.
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