Greg Wallace <gregwallace@fastmail.fm> wrote: On Wednesday, July 26, 2006 @ 3:27 PM, PatrickM wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, July 25, 2006 @ 11:43 PM, Fred Miller wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 9:41 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
Ever since I upgraded to 10.1, my screen saver has not worked. I don't know why I have taken this long to address the problem, but, anyway, I'd like to get it working again. As far as I can tell, everything is still set up the same as it was in 10.0. If I test it, it works fine, but it just never comes on. Anyone else experienced this problem since
migrating
to 10.1?
I am using 10.0 and had problems with the KDE screen savers on my home system (not a laptop) using an ATI 9200 card.
I got mine to work by disabling the startup of the kdepowersave program. Also, in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file I removed the "DPMS" line from my monitor section . Here is also another possiblilty from another E-MAIL on the Fedora list (I have not tried this):
We think it's related to DPMS somehow. Whether your video/monitory supports dpms, and/or whether your dpms timeouts are earlier (or not) than your screensaver timeout. ahh, i just found it. edit ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc and find the stanza [ScreenSaver]. immediatly below there exist an entry named: DPMS-dependent set this to false, logout, login and screensaver works again. sorry, i didn't had the time to search for the right option in Control Center. a few days before i just upgraded this machine from fc3 to fc5 and screensaver (blank screen) works for me. after reading this thread i changed from blank screen to BSoD and the screensaver didn't start anymore. hth, didi