Comment 32 for bug 3198

Perhaps you could post this message on the -devel list, to get some
attention to it...

2007/11/18, Neilen Marais <email address hidden>:
> Well well, I have good news and bad news.
>
> Good news: The demise of starwars in gutsy was greatly exagerated; It's still in xscreensaver-gl-extra where it's always been
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=xscreensaver-gl-extra&version=gutsy&arch=i386
>
> Bad news: Still crashes as hard as ever ;(((
>
> I'm getting really frusrated for several reasons:
>
> 1) I like the starwars screensaver
> 2) the hard crashes undermine my confidence in general
> 3) It's been more than 2 years since I first reported the bug with no apparent progress
> 4) I don't know how to contribute to finding the problem in a more meaningful way.
>
> Anyway, given the hard-crash nature it seems clear cut to me that it is
> a problem in DRI or Xorg that is just brought to light by the starwars
> screensaver. Presumably not only ubuntu users should be seeing it unless
> it's some long standing ubuntu divergence from upstream that is causing
> the issue; that seems unlikely though. I.O.W. should we not be taking
> this upstream? By the way, specific suggestions regarding 4) would be
> appreciated!
>
> ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu)
> Status: Invalid => Confirmed
>
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> [radeon, savage] Starwars screensaver locks X
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3198
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Alexandre Strube
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