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Date:      22 Apr 2003 14:36:12 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: xscreensaver problem
Message-ID:  <1051036572.1079.67.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030422182907.GA23560@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
References:  <20030422182907.GA23560@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>

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On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 14:29, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> I do not if this is a Gnome, XFree86, or FreeBSD-current question, but I
> thought I would try here first.
>=20
> First off, I am running FreeBSD 5.0-current (April 15, 2003) with Gnome
> 2.2, and xscreensaver 4.09.  I have a Matrox G550 graphics card.
>=20
> The problem is that all xscreensaver hacks that use the GL visual fail
> during screen blanking.  The screensavers look fine in the preview
> window of the xscreensaver-demo interface.  Also, I can call them from
> the command line and they will appear and execute just fine in a window.
> But when they are used to blank the screen, or I hit 'Preview' from
> the interface, they fail.  I get a message like the following (hand
> transcribed):
>=20
> xscreensaver: 0: child pid 29034 (cage) terminated with SIGSEGV
>=20
> I am suspicious that it may be the graphics card although I thought the
> Matrox cards were fairly well supported.  Since I know Gnome people use
> xscreensaver I was curious if anyone else is seeing this.

The backtrace of the crash would be the most useful.  However, send your
~/.xscreensaver file, too.

Joe

>=20
> Thanks.
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