Its not the screensaver itself. The screensaver works like its supposed to. Its the set the screen saver preferences getting tweaked by selecting the cyclone option in combination. Cyclone works fine, but when you go to select it initially it locks the screen forcing a reboot on a fresh install. Trust me, I have done this a number of times for the sake of R&D to see if it was me or if there was a work around. Uninstall, upload new gnome-screensaver package, and no matter what the situation was it locked my screen when I first select the the option. The set the screen saver preference works fine, until you select cyclone. Then the screen locks up.
It could be a driver issue, but then why do the others work and this one tweak so hard? Its being rendered on the same card and the graphics for cyclone look like vector images, so it can't be that taxing on my card. Even if it calculated an entire particle swarm with a real world physics engine it would fare better than this weird anomaly. anomaly (plural anomalies) 1. A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal. My card is an ATI Radeon 256. The Os supports this card and drivers are readily available. I do heavy 3D graphics with Maya no problem. If you uninstall and upload gnome-screensaver it still remembers the preference. Same boat. Re-install entire Os and not select cyclone is my only option and that's where I'm at right now for the umpteenth time. The X-screen savers looks cool, but they want to stop the Gnome daemon, but even that didn't work when I said go ahead. Even after I uninstalled the gnome-daemon for screensaver. Its no big deal if its just my machine. I'd just hate to see the new release go out and a million people b!*ch that they selected cyclone and their screens locked up. Just take the stupid option out. Its not that cool looking anyway. This tweak has cost me days. Oh, well. -- screensaver freezes desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433466 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
