xscreensaver problem

[Glenn Johnson]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:57:47PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 14:50, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > The problem is that all xscreensaver hacks that use the GL
> > > > visual fail during screen blanking.  The screensavers look fine
> > > > in the preview window of the xscreensaver-demo interface.  Also,
> > > > I can call them from the command line and they will appear and
> > > > execute just fine in a window.  But when they are used to blank
> > > > the screen, or I hit 'Preview' from the interface, they fail.  I
> > > > get a message like the following (hand transcribed):
> > > >
> > > > xscreensaver: 0: child pid 29034 (cage) terminated with SIGSEGV
>
> Found your problem.  Remove the line that says:
> 
> memoryLimit: 50M
> 
> from ~/.xscreensaver, restart your server, and you'll be set.

That was it.  I took a look at the manual page to see what the
default is.  I found this:

    Default:  0, meaning "no limit."  30M is a good choice on most
    systems.  (But beware that setting this to a small value can cause
    OpenGL programs to malfunction on certain systems.)

D'oh.

Thanks.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
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