I'm having this screen-saver problem on Intrepid as well: 1) I turned it off while playing a game (Padman) because when the screen saver started the game would crash (why is the screen saver going on at all in this case? The computer is not idle!) 2) After re-enabling the screen-saver, it will not activate. 3) I set the time-out for 1 minute to test things... 4) At 30 seconds or so, the screen starts to dim. (In "Power Management" I have "Dim display when idle" enabled) 5) Then at 1 minute, the screen brightens back up and no screen-saver "occurs."
Now, something interesting happens: 6) Every time after this "failed" screen-saver activation, keyboard and mouse clicks are unresponsive. (i can still move the pointer and high- light things on the desktop ... just no click-events on menus and applications appear to be working). But not entirely; I can CTRL-ALT-Fx to switch to one of the TTYs and then come back to the desktop and keyboard and mouse clicks work again. Question: Will /var/log/message or dmesg show any debug or failure of the screen-saver activation? Hardware: Dell M65 Laptop with Dual-core Intel and nVidia graphics /Charlie -- [hardy] screensaver fails to start and screen fails to completely black out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229144 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
