My screensaver was working OK. but was broken by the last rpm. I am assuming that it was the xscreensaver-3.09-4.i386. rpm or the screen-3.7.6-9.i386.rpm. It was installed on Friday Evening September 17 1999. Renewed settings in the Desktop settings don't affect anything. Milleum MGA card Viewsonic P810, 21 inch monitor.
What errors are you getting?
No errors are reported. The screen does go blank after a while but will not display the selected saver image from the desktop. The worst part of this error is that I selected password protection and it gets me back without any password. There is probably cosmetic error in the desktop selectio. When the OK button is selected the right hand area of the GUI goes blank. When I say no errors - no error is displayed or found in /var/log/messages Hope this helps
Are you attempting to run it as root? The screensaver won't work for root...
We'll assume you were trying to run the screensaver as root. If this was not the case, please re-open this bug report. Thanks! ------- Additional Comments From 10/07/99 01:33 ------- I was running as root. The screensaver image failes to appear but otherwise works. root gets a blank screen instead of the selected image.
Something is wrong here. The screensaver works just like it was before it was "broke". The only difference is that the image selector was blank. Otherwise the screensaver was OK. Either way it's a bug. If it is not supposed to run as root then it should not run. It does run, ust without the screensaver image.
The screen going blank is a function of the kernel. The xscreensaver not running as root was part of a security fix; it will not be changed back.
*** Bug 6813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***