From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Having installed Fedora 2 Test3 with the default settings for my graphics card (Intel 830) - the same settings that worked fine with FC1 - I ran the screensaver component from prefrences and when I clicked on anything beginning with GL, X freezes completely. These screensavers worked fine when I was using FC1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open screensaver from prefs menu 2.Click on anything GL (eg - GLMatrix) 3. Actual Results: The screen freezes, the preview window of the screensaver stays blank and both mouse and keyboard remain locked up. I have to reset my laptop every time. Expected Results: The preview window should show a miniturised version of the screensaver running Additional info: My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 1100 with Intel 830 32MB(shared) and 512 of Memory.
This sounds like a kernel issue that was fixed in 2.6.5-1.350.
Yes, indeed, this is now fixed in rawhide.