I have had several matrox, intel and ati based graphics cards that with the default install would CRASH upon about half of the opengl- screensavers.
If the screensavers that require 3D are in seperate packages, why are they even installed by default and/or available on a live-desktop. This is a packaging issue, not an upstream issue. Please get those 3d screensavers out of the default install and live-cd and add their package to g-a-i for Edgy. Put the package in universe instead of official repo's while you're at it. (where they belong). Also I vote for priority 'critical'. Since on about half of the 3d cards out there, using the default open source drivers, they make the system crash. I will try to post some specific bug reports about all the hardware although I suspect they are already well known upstream. I have experienced this at least on two different Acer Systems as well as some Dell systems. They were all company related systems (yes: i have switched a number of small companies I work for from windows to ubuntu). It was shamefull to talk about stability for 10 minutes and then turn around to point to a crashed system (because some opengl screensaver started). -- don't use OpenGL savers if no hardware support https://launchpad.net/bugs/33753 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
