<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">My Screensaver "froze". I do not know how to fix this problem...it has happened in the past.<BR>
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I am running <B>RH 8.0</B>. (with a basic, all-default installation; in other words, I do not know enough about the system to "set" and change anything yet).<BR>
I am using <B>GNOME</B> as my default GUI.<BR>
By default, while using Gnome, after a preset amount of time of dis-use, a screensaver program will begin running.<BR>
The program seems to run through a batch of separate distinguishable screensaver patterns, one after the other. <BR>
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<B>As the patterns are running their course, it happens that it will freeze during the course of its run.</B> The keyboard and mouse lose their functionality, and I am left with a screensaver frozen in the middle of its pattern, with no reasonable recourse, that I am aware of, but to "reboot" the system. Ugh!<BR>
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I am wondering if this isn't a glitch in the particular individual screensaver script(?), and/or, a problem between my computer's graphic capabilities and the script's requirements for running.<BR>
It seems to me that it would be such a long drawn-out process for someone with my limited knowledge, to fix, that I thought I would ask if this is a 'common' problem, and what I should do about it.<BR>
I remember this happening to me before, in a whole other Installation, I thought, and I only rebooted and carried on, but I know it made me very insecure about leaving my GUI application open, and letting it go into screensaver mode, for fear of it freezing up while running a screensaver-- which now it has done.<BR>
I am suspecting something is wrong within the individual screensaver script that is running at the time it freezes up, and if I could eliminate the script, I would fix the problem; but I do not know how to correlate the picture/screensaver on the screen, with a particular script. Or it could be another problem...<BR>
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Anyway, it is enough to drive me to write the LUG and see if anybody knows what is wrong with 'whatever'.<BR>
Thanks in advance for any helpful response.<BR>
Meanwhile I will try and find a website with info on known Gnome Screensaver problems.<BR>
Jim U.</FONT></HTML>