Hi. I installed (actually upgraded) my xscreensaver 3.XX to 4.03 and half of the screensaver's are gone. What I mean is that I type 'xscreensaver-demo' and try to preview most of them and they're not there and they don't work. They just launch a black screen and say something like

> xscreensaver could not execute 'gears': no such file or directory

blah blah blah...




any help appreciated.
purpleburple

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purpleburple
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It means they are not a part of xscreensaver destributed, they are either add-on screensavers or commercial screensavers.

gears is a openGL prog - and so are a lot of the other screen savers. if you don't have GL installed properly, then they won't run.

I do have GL installed properly and they all (open gl screenasvers) ran before I upgraded

Hi
Was just playing around whith xscreensaver on my
mdk box; noticed the same as you did
After installing an extra rpm;
xscreensaver-gl-4.00-4mdk
most of the open gl thingies worked
regards