Screen saver doesn't work on new installation

[luggw1]

I recently installed 7.10 on a 64-bit AMD machine. I configured the screen saver to start automatically after 5 minutes and to require a password to unlock. Regardless of the screen saver that I choose, it never engages. The screen does lock, though. Also, the screen saver works when I hit the Test button on the Configure window.

I am using the restricted video driver and I have tried a couple of games that used OpenGL that seem to work fine.

Any ideas on what might be happening and how to fix this?

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[integr8e]

Re: Screen saver doesn't work on new installation

Maybe: make sure you have the kscreensaver-xsavers, kscreensaver-xsavers-extra, xscreensaver-gl-extra, xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver, xscreensaver-data, and xscreensaver-data-extra packages installed. Then try again . . . I cannot remember exactly which packages fixed the issue for me, but I believe they consisted of the above

[Detonate]

Re: Screen saver doesn't work on new installation

See this thread.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089113.0

[luggw1]

Re: Screen saver doesn't work on new installation

Maybe: make sure you have the kscreensaver-xsavers, kscreensaver-xsavers-extra, xscreensaver-gl-extra, xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver, xscreensaver-data, and xscreensaver-data-extra packages installed. Then try again . . . I cannot remember exactly which packages fixed the issue for me, but I believe they consisted of the above

Well, I did the following:
apt-get install kscreensaver-xsavers
apt-get install kscreensaver-xsavers-extra
apt-get install xscreensaver

The combination of these three got the others that you listed above. the result was that I got a bunch more screen savers to choose from and my problem went away.

Another satisfied customer.

Thanks for your help...and your witness.
Bill Lugg

[integr8e]

Re: Screen saver doesn't work on new installation