Screensaver problem

[raymond house]

Hi Eugene, power management: computer to sleep is set at 30 mins.
Screensaver at 5 mins. and yes the preview works ok, and when the computer
is unresponsive I tried everything with the keyboard and the mouse.
Admin-hardware says:No proprietary drivers are in use in the system. And how
can I find out what video card I have?  Thanks Eugene.    Ray

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Eugene Cormier <eugene.cormier at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 13:01 -0500, raymond house wrote:
> > Hi everyone, I have one for all the experts out there, In screensaver
> > preferences if I select any other choice than Blank screen, when the
> > time out occurs and it goes idle I then cannot bring back the screen,
> > all is frozen and I have to recycle the computer in order to boot up.
> > I am using Ubuntu 9.1. Never had this occur with 9.04.  Thanks, Ray.
>
> Hey Ray....here are a couple of thoughts:
>
> 1) is it that the power management is kicking in a putting the computer
> in suspend/hibernate before the screen saver kicks in? go to the menu
> "system" - "preferences" - "power management" and make sure the times
> make sense with your screensaver. also , the next time your computer
> goes blank and unresponsive, try hitting some keys, click the mouse or
> press the power button to see if it will "wake up"
>
> 2) is it an opengl problem with your video card? what king of video card
> do you have? are you using restricted drivers? to find out go to
> "system" - "administration" - "hardware drivers" and make sure if there
> is an available ati/nvidia driver that it is enabled
>
> 3) in the screensaver settings, does the preview button work?
>
> it might also be a problem with compiz, but I'd start by investigating
> the things I mentioned above
>
> and as a final note I'll throw in a eco-militant bit....don't use a
> screensaver....to save energy just have the screen shut of (via power
> management)
>
> Eugene
>
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