I have been using 2.4.16 since it came out and hadn't had a single problem. On the other hand xscreensaver and xlock has always been trouble. A crashed GL application sometimes will leave your video card in such a mess that even kiling X right from under it will not reinitialize it. Generally this would noy affect ability to remotely connect unless the GL application didn't crash but instead is hogging system resources. I haven't seen this happen with xscreensaver, but xlock had done similar things to me a few times. So, I don't really believe that this is related to kernel version, although since DRI support has been rewritten in 2.4 series, that might cause some trouble.
On Friday 07 December 2001 03:49 pm, Preben Randhol wrote: > After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice until i > looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my screensaver had > stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried to login but no > dialog box noting. Then I tried to ssh, but this didn't work either so I > had to hit reset button. Now I'm back to 2.2. Do somebody know of > particular problems with 2.4.16? > > Thanks in advance. > > Preben
