Well well, I have good news and bad news.
Good news: The demise of starwars in gutsy was greatly exagerated; It's still
in xscreensaver-gl-extra where it's always been
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=xscreensaver-gl-extra&version=gutsy&arch=i386
Bad news: Still crashes as hard as ever ;(((
I'm getting really frusrated for several reasons:
1) I like the starwars screensaver
2) the hard crashes undermine my confidence in general
3) It's been more than 2 years since I first reported the bug with no apparent
progress
4) I don't know how to contribute to finding the problem in a more meaningful
way.
Anyway, given the hard-crash nature it seems clear cut to me that it is
a problem in DRI or Xorg that is just brought to light by the starwars
screensaver. Presumably not only ubuntu users should be seeing it unless
it's some long standing ubuntu divergence from upstream that is causing
the issue; that seems unlikely though. I.O.W. should we not be taking
this upstream? By the way, specific suggestions regarding 4) would be
appreciated!
** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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[radeon, savage] Starwars screensaver locks X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3198
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