Screensaver wont work

[Russty1510]

Hi
I have just installed Kubuntu and it is FANTASTIC! But I do have one problem, and that is that the screensaver wont work. I choose the screensaver from the list, (the ones already installed, I am not trying to get something else to work) and I choose the time and click apply. But nothing happens. I can leave it for hours and still nothing. I clicked TEST and it worked fine, but it wont start by itself when the screen is idle. I have tried some Open GL ones and even just the clock.

So, there must be some trick to it. Do I have to install some package or something first? I have done all the updates and have installed Automatix.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Russty

[sky]

Re: Screensaver wont work

Hi,

It was a bug in kde 3.5.3 but it shouldn't appear anymore, did you upgrade to kde 3.5.4 ?

Cheers

[Russty1510]

Re: Screensaver wont work

Hi,

It was a bug in kde 3.5.3 but it shouldn't appear anymore, did you upgrade to kde 3.5.4 ?

Cheers

I don't know! How do I find out which one I am using and how do I upgrade it?

Russty

[arizonagroovejet]

Re: Screensaver wont work

I don't know! How do I find out which one I am using and how do I upgrade it?

Russty

Run 'kcontrol' from a command prompt. That will tell you what version of KDE you are running.

As sky mentions, there is a bug in KDE 3.5.3 which means the screensavesr don't kick in after the specified time. This bug is fixed in KDE 3.5.4. KDE 3.5.4 is available for Kubuntu, see
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-354.php for repos.

[caulktel]

Re: Screensaver wont work

I am having the same problem on all three of my Kubuntu machines. When I run Kcontrol, it says KDE 3.5.2, so do I need to upgrade this? Why does this not get upgraded with all the other updates?

[arizonagroovejet]

Re: Screensaver wont work

I am having the same problem on all three of my Kubuntu machines. When I run Kcontrol, it says KDE 3.5.2, so do I need to upgrade this?

If you want your screensaver to work then yes.
edit: Then again maybe not. Worth updating though. I don't recall having a problem with the screensaver in 3.5.2. But then 3.5.3 was released very soon after Kubuntu 6.06 was so maybe I didn't run with 3.5.2 long enough to notice a problem.

Why does this not get upgraded with all the other updates?

I thin it's because Kubuntu uses the same repos for updates as Ubuntu does and they can't get the new versions of KDE endoresed as offical upates or something. I think I read something like that somewhere. I may be wrong. Packages for 3.5.4 are avilable but you need to add he aforementioned repo.

[caulktel]

Re: Screensaver wont work

Well upgrading KDE to 3.5.4 didn't do anything either. Strange though, after upgrading, kcontrol still shows 3.5.2. Apt showed that 3.5.4 installed correctly. I followed the instructions that were here: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-354.php , still no go. I would swear that the startup sound is now different that before, indicating that it had been upgraded.

[tom_d]

Re: Screensaver wont work

Well upgrading KDE to 3.5.4 didn't do anything either. Strange though, after upgrading, kcontrol still shows 3.5.2. Apt showed that 3.5.4 installed correctly. I followed the instructions that were here: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-354.php , still no go. I would swear that the startup sound is now different that before, indicating that it had been upgraded.

I ran kcontrol with the following output:
~$ kcontrol
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-tom/ksycoca
kcontrol: Found basegroup = Settings/

the screen tells me I'm running 3.5.4, then dumps this to terminal when I close Kcontrol

~$ kparts: KPart::slotWidgetDestroyed(), deleting part unnamed
kparts: 0x82428e8 emitting activePartChanged (nil)
kparts: Part::~Part 0x81f3de0

and I can't get any screensavers to work either . . .

[someguyouknow]

Re: Screensaver wont work

yea... i upgraded a while ago and still wasnt able to get them running.

[arizonagroovejet]

Re: Screensaver wont work

I ran kcontrol with the following output:
~$ kcontrol
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

You can get rid of that by editing xorg.cong and commenting out the lines

  InputDevice   "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
  InputDevice   "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
  InputDevice   "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

[caulktel]

Re: Screensaver wont work

I just did the upgrade, (KDE 3.5.4 that is) on another machine in my office, now the screen goes blank at the predetermined time, but doesn't display the screensaver I selected. Oh well, at least I'm not frying my screen. On another note,
the power saving function doesn't work either. I enable it as root, but it never turns the monitor off, and the next time I check the settings it's turned back off. None of this is show stopper stuff, but I hope it gets figured out soon. I wish I was smart enough to do it.