Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 30636
"vines" screensaver locks up machine
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Thw "vines" screensaver when activated locks up machine completely. Occasionally half of the desktop shows/with half of the screensaver This happens after about a minute and a half after the screensaver starts If you hi ctrl-alt-backspace after screen freezes, you can restart. If you wait more than 5 minutes machine is completely locked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to desktop settins/screensaver and select "vines" 2.Tried other screensavers, the "matrix" and "triangles". 3. Actual Results: The computer did not lock up with the the other screensavers. I did not have time to try all though. One time the bottom half of the screen did not "clear" but the top half did. The screensaver completey completely locked in three minutes though. System; Pentium 233 MHz overclocked comfortably at 266 MHz 128 Mb Ram NCR53c810 SCSI card (tape drive doesn't seem to be mounted though - i don't know what's wrong) tekram p5t30b4 "TX" based motherboard Creative Labs Blaster Extreme graphics card 8Mb (permedia chipset - I believe this might be related to bug #10974 ) I'm a complete newbie at linux - I can't give you much more detail beyond this. Maybe in 6 months :-)
Does it happen if you don't overclock?
"vines" is not the only that does this. "Laser" is worse than "vines". I removed SCSI card and set system normal (not overclocked). "Laser" almost instantly freezes system - no restarting either. One time it went for twenty seconds half the screen flashed blue behind the laser (horizontally) a couple of times before it locks hard. Heck, I thought that's why I was leaving windows :-)))
This sounds most like a problem with your speciic X driver; these all seem to run fine here.
I cannot reproduce this with r128 card nor a Rage IIc or MGA G200, so I agree with Bill, it must be specific to your video hardware, or perhaps your computer setup. I do not have your hardware available to try to reproduce this bug. Can you send me a backtrace from a coredump? Also, please attach your config, and your X server log file.
sorry, too much of a newbie to do backtrace/coredump right now. It probably is something with this brand of card though.
Please update to the latest XFree86 in Rawhide (4.0.3) as well as the latest Mesa. This should solve the problem.