Gnome-screensaver in Debian testing

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:24:57PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> I've been having chronic problems with gnome-screensaver in Debian
>> Testing. Debian bugs shows others with the same problem, but still no
>> resolution as far as I can tell, after many months.
>>
>> The only suggestion, which most report doesn't solve the problem, is
>> to use the package from Unstable. Only problem there is it would move
>> all of X Org to unstable, and remove my nvidia-glx. I'd kinda rather
>> just keep turning my display off manually until the bug is fixed.
>>
>> I'm just curious, though: anyone else being bit by this, and for as
>> long? This seems so unlike all of my other experiences with Debian.
>
> Why does nvidia-glx in unstable not work for you?  Works for me.
>

All I'm sayin' is, if I want to upgrade gnome-screensaver, it would
mean upgrading _everything_, including nvidia-glx. Seems a little
extreme when I can just press the power button. :)

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