Comment 12 for bug 33753

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote :

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).