Perhaps you could post this message on the -devel list, to get some attention to it...
2007/11/18, Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > -- > [radeon, savage] Starwars screensaver locks X > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3198 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- [] Alexandre Strube [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [radeon, savage] Starwars screensaver locks X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3198 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
