Rob VanFleet wrote: > I'm using potato with the /dev/3dfx - Mesa combo for 3D. When I run a GL > screen hack like gears or morph3d, it runs accelerated and looks nice. The > problem is that when I exit them, the display in X is completely whacked; I > can't do anything. So far, I've just been Alt-F1'ing back to a console and > hitting Ctrl-C to kill the X server. This activity is confined to > xscreensaver > running them. When I run them from the command line with no options, I don't > get the corrupted display, only when I run them with '- root', as xscreensaver > does. > > Does anyone know why this happens, how to prevent it, or at least if there is > a > way to reset the X display without restarting the server? >
Try to resize the screen size with the CTRL ALT and numpad minus and plus key, but i should remove the package xscreensaver-gl to avoid problems... Hope this help. Andrea