I am having the same problem with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). Gnome-Screensaver runs just fine when locking but once DPMS puts the monitor to sleep the screensaver will no longer appear unless you kill gnome-screensaver and restart it.
System Specs. ---------------------- AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (using i386 kernel) nVidia 6600GT (monitor connected via DVI) / using nvidia driver Gigabyte nForce4 GA-K8N-SLI motherboard -- GNOME screensaver will not engage after DPMS has shut off the monitor https://launchpad.net/bugs/76507 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
