BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
<snip> 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 .
Hi, can't use this solution because of kdepowersave not running... wish to keep it :-)
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
just to say that i tried this Fedora hint, but did not work. The entry DPMS-dependant did not appear (the stanza is there, though), so i added the entry: DPMS-dependant=false After logoff/logon, it didn't work, still no screensaver. Anyway, if this worked, maybe it would be a hassle to do it for each profile in some cases. (Found nothing also in /etc/skel for future profiles, but might have checked badly) So until a fix is released, downgraded (*not* a solution) to the older version, and screensavers back again :-/ If this lack of screensaver with that kdebase3 version is confirmed, may be someone of us should report the bug. Cheers, PatrickM