[CentOS] KDE screensaver on Centos 4.1

Fri Aug 19 02:20:52 UTC 2005
BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net>


--- Vincent Knecht <vknecht at club-internet.fr> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
>  

Hi Vincent & Dave!

I have looked at some of the bugs for xscreensaver in bugzilla, and none
of them seem to quite fit my the conditions of my setup.

More info:
            the  xorg.conf file says that I am using the 'radeon' driver.
            the standard driver provided by  Redhat/Centos.

I looked at the /var/log/xorg.o.log file and did not see any errors
that were pointing to video or screen saver issues.

Running  xscreensaver from a command window showed the screen saver set up
in my Gnome login (they work there), not the one configured in KDE.

After running xscreensaver manually, I was able to get the GL Fireworks 3D
screen saver to work (sort of), but it was kinda jurkey and it locked up
the system (had to do a hard reset) after about 30 minutes or so.

I can get the simple banner screen saver to work now, but that is about
the only one so far.  All of the others (I have tried most of them) simply
test fine, but only blank out the screen when invoked normally.

I looked at ~.xscreensaver, and did not see any kind of 'Blank only' setting
in there.

Any ideas?