[Bug 38181] Re: Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE)

[Jani Juvan]

I can confirm that this problem still exists on the edgy eft. I have a fresh install of 6.10 and am using a Matrox G550 AGP card with default xorg drivers.
I get this problem when selecting certain screensavers in Screensaver Preferences. Most screensavers do not give any preview and instead hang the Screensaver Preferences window after a while. If this screensaver remains selected and is activated when machine is idle it results in a complete hanging of the system only fixed by doing a cold boot.
Fortunately the screensaver can be reset to blank-only with gconf-editor. Maybe I have been unlucky, but the only screensaver I have managed to get to work is the FiberLamp one, although I have not done thorough testing.

Hope you guys solve it soon.

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Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38181