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mint14 screensaver crash

Posted 02-09-2013 at 02:28 PM by pandanuma
Updated 02-11-2013 at 02:05 PM by pandanuma

whenever pooter goes into screensaver mode it times out and goes to a black screen and eventually crashes
get this on the screen
[21.254193][drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] error failed to set mode on [crtc:10]

everything is locked up and need to power down to reboot.
sorry have not been able to find error in logs...where would i look?

...losing my mind...wanted to post this in forums but in a rush and could not find what i needed...

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Stragest BugZ Part 1

Posted 01-15-2012 at 10:14 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 08-06-2014 at 10:37 AM by rainbowsally

Tags bugs, crash, opensuse, plasma, screensaver

Before I forget, I want to jot some notes on the screwiest bugs I've seen.

First, openSUSE.

I'm using version 11.4, but it's very likely that some of these misfeatures are still present in 12.1 though the newer kde seems to behave a bit better. Better, at least when JAWS appears. The newer KDE it may self correct better but you may well still see the effect for an instant even so.

JAWS!

The exploding desktop bug, or "JAWS", which...

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rss-glx: 3D fireworks screensaver and more

Posted 11-07-2010 at 06:03 PM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags desktop, screensaver

About two years ago, when I wasn't yet a linux user I saw a video on youtube, a comparision of two laptops, one running Ubuntu, another windblows vista.
at some moment of video the guy starts some ugly screensaver from windblows, something looks like old "pipes" from older versions of the system and then, starts this outstanding 3d screensaver with fireworks exploding under the clouds in ubuntu laptop. Which is free and opensource, yeah.
I never actually used screensavers...

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