X crashes when testing screen savers

[Jean-Denis]

When i go and test a screen saver, x crashes with a scary messed up console screen with nothing to do but ctrl-alt-del to reboot.

this happens when pressing the preview button, or sometimes after returning from the preview.

graphics card is ati x1550 on amd64

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 23 06:41:11 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux jdb.neuralia.ca 2.6.19-4-generic-amd64 #2 SMP Tue Mar 6 15:59:37 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Could you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (after the crash copy it somewhere so it isn't overwritten) and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[Jean-Denis (jdboudreault)]

sure, here it goes.

i jsut tried it again and it crashes systematically when i exit the preview by the buttong.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

You don't use an official kernel, which means you don't use the official builds of linux-restricted-modules either, right? Feisty has 2.6.20-12-generic now.

[Jean-Denis (jdboudreault)]

hi,

well, i installed feisty from scratch, formatting the whole drive. since then, all i did was add applications through synaptic package manager. as of this, i have no idea why i don't have the right kernel version from doing standard basic stuff. could this be a bug?

also, the only thing i did that could have changed the kernel is installing xen (again from apt-get). but then, why would xen use an older kernel?

and, if xen is the reason why i have an older kernel, this screen save bug happened to me even after i have freshly installed the OS and begun setting my preferences. That was way before i did any important updates, including xen. i report it today, but i have been having it since the beginning.

in any case, i will be installing beta today, and we can see if it happens anymore.

thanks!

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Jean-Denis,

Have you still be experiencing this with the released version of Feisty?

[Jean-Denis (jdboudreault)]

Hello,

nope, all is fine since the released version of ubuntu feisty. thanks for the great product! :)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for confirming the fix! Very glad to hear it's resolved.