On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, +12:20:22 EET (UTC +0200), Jamie Zawinski <j...@jwz.org> pressed some keys:
> > I really was running that screenhack called biof. > I've never heard of this, what is it? Here is text from its settings-dialog: ---- Clip here ---- This is an attempt to recreate some of the work of William Latham. Take a look at the program 'organic art' at this site (http://www.artworks.co.uk). Written by Ronald Hordijk <hk at dgmr.nl>. Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali - <http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/>. ---- Clip here ---- That screenhack obviously belongs to Debian-package called rss-glx . I really don't know, if any of those problematic OpenGL-screenhacks belong to XScreenSaver-distribution. It really takes much time to weed out all of them from list of randomly chosen screenhacks, because that lockup I told you, comes out of the blue when least expected. On the other hand, I also have many non-OpenGL-screenhacks in that setting. Or maybe I should do something like this: 1. Write down all my currently chosen screenhacks from that list of randomly chosen screenhacks to some text file. 2. Disable all screenhacks from that aforementioned list. 3. Enable all screenhacks that belong to to rss-glx -distribution and all OpenGL-screenhacks that belong to XScreenSaver-distribution. 4. Wait. 5. Whenever some of those screenhacks locks up my keyboard, rectify situation with my netbook. Then write down name of that problematic screenhack to some text file. Write a bug report about it to its real maintainer. Disable it from list of randomly chosen screenhacks. 6. If there are still some screenhacks left, go back to phase 4. 7. If you see no lockups for very long time or you run out of screenhacks, enable all screenhacks you write down in phase 1. 8. If author of some problematic screenhack has really fixed bugs of that screenhack, you can enable it. BTW This is from description of rss-glx: ---- Clip here ---- Screensavers included in this package are: Biof, Busy Spheres, Colorfire, Cyclone, Drempels, Euphoria, Feedback, Fieldlines, Flocks, Flux, Helios, Hufo's Smoke, Hufo's Tunnel, Hyperspace, Lattice, Lorenz Attractor, MatrixView, Plasma, Pixel City, Skyrocket, Solarwinds, SpirographX, and Sundancer2. ---- Clip here ---- -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
