On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>
> > Also, more people run screen savers than tuxracer, so that's where the
> > video driver crashes tend to occur. Then they blame me and I am sad.
>
> Hehe, I've had several people complain about 'random' crashes, usually
> when they arrived at work in the morning or came back from coffee. All of
> them related to 3D screensavers :)
>
> Maybe disabling 3D screensavers by default (and/or a warning about the
> potential to crash when people open the screensaver configuration) would
> reduce the uncomfortable (unstable) feeling people got when using Linux in
> these cases.
Or how about just fixing the drivers so they don't lock up ?
People first have to know why it crashes before they know where to report
it. The anecdotes I gave was to indicate that people usually don't know
why it crashed and in return have a general feeling of unstability.
I would like to make sure that 1) these people don't have an uncomfortable
feeling and 2) understand that enabling 3D has a potential to crash a
system, so people might realise why it happens and where to report it.
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