[CentOS] KDE screensaver on Centos 4.1

Vincent Knecht vknecht at club-internet.fr
Thu Aug 18 22:55:33 UTC 2005


Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 23:45, BRUCE STANLEY a écrit :
> --- BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > The KDE screen savers will only blank out the screen
> > though most of them test ok when you hit the test
> > button in the Control Center.
> >
> > The Gnome screen savers work ok.
> >
> > My system has a Radeon 9200SE video card and I
> > have a ViewSonic A70f monitor.
> >
> > Does anyone have a fix for this?
>
> Is anyone out there using screensavers under KDE ?

Yes, I guess I am, "rpm -qa | grep saver" gives me
xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2
and I use KDE as desktop manager (with nvidia binary driver).

In KDE Control Center, I see the setup is to start a random screensaver 
automatically after 5mn, which works for me (checkbox for notifying screen of 
energy-saving is unchecked).
I also have  the "dpms" option in my monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
and "xdpyinfo | grep -i saver" gives me MIT-SCREEN-SAVER.

> I have not been able to get them to work.
>
> They work fine on my system when using  FC2, FC3, or FC4,
> but not in Centos 4.1.

I don't know the cause of your problem, but perhaps you could look 
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log if there's any insteresting related error message.
Also you could tell us which driver you're using for your gfx card (DRI
or ATI fglrx binary driver).

Now, after writing all this, I just launched "xscreensaver" on the 
command-line, and by choosing "Settings", I can see the default setting is to 
have "Blank screen only".
Perhaps there's some priority wrong between your KDE and xscreensaver 
installs ?
Looking at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=screensaver&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=screensaver&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=screensaver&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=screensaver
(that is, searching "screensaver" in RedHat's bugzilla), it seems there are 
some known issues, in particular 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160529



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