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Bug 107271 - Please turn off OpenGL screensavers by default
Summary: Please turn off OpenGL screensavers by default
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 107270
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xscreensaver
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-16 12:46 UTC by Ed Hill
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:59:12 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Ed Hill 2003-10-16 12:46:18 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131

Description of problem:
The default screen saver setting in past versions of Red Hat is *lousy* because
the following often happens:

  1) it randomly cycles through the default list which includes
     all screen savers

  2) on many machines the OpenGL drivers are flaky

  3) after some (random) time period, an OpenGL screen saver is 
     run which exercises the flaky OpenGL driver and causes a 
     crash

  4) the (often inexperienced) user then can't figure out why 
     his/her workstation has locked up while they were *away* 
     from the machine.

Note that this is a fairly common scenario.  See bugs:
  57294
  62287
  73827

Please do one or more of the following:

  1) turn off OpenGL screensavers by default

  2) warn users about the above when they explicitly turn on 
     OpenGL screen savers

thanks,
Ed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Please disable OpenGL screensavers by default

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above
2.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-10-16 17:58:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107270 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:59:12 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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