From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: After upgrading from Red Hat 7.1 to 8.0 on my 166 mHz Pentium II, menu display became progressively slower; this was accompanied by prolonged blanking of the screen during refresh, sometimes with the screen saver appearing for a few seconds before refresh succeeded. Also, I noted that the capslock light went on 2-3 seconds after the capslock key was pressed on one of these occasions. The problem progressed rapidly if a lot of windows were opened an closed during a session, especially using Open Office; but it also progressed slowly while the system was left on overnight. Rebooting the machine temporarily resolves the slowdown. Others with faster machines have reported to me that they also see a slowdown, or that xcreensaver takes up to 50% of cpu time, and disabling the screensaver resolves the performance issue. The the problem was solved disabling the screen saver. During this time, I noted that the power management function of the screensaver applet (xscreensaver-demo -crapplet) cannot be made to function. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hat-> Preferences -> screensaver -> random screensaver 2. Do some work 3. Reboot before the system becomes non-functional Actual Results: Same thing Expected Results: Proper function Additional info:
Are you using GL-using screensavers?
I'm using the screensavers out of the box; nothing added or installed otherwise; the system began as a 5.x, then 6.x, then 7.1 (which was, I think, a complete reinstall), and now upgraded to 8.0. Screensaver and dpms worked with 7.1 My habit has been to choose "random screensaver" and to select dpms to put the screen to sleep after 1 minute of inactivity. I do recall that there was a problem with the random screensaver 7.2 on my IBM Thinkpad T23 causig a problem with display freezing (as I recollect) that was solved by selecting a single screensaver display. dpms works properly there.
Hi Dan, Given the age of this report and the lack of activity, it seems very likely that this bug has been corrected. I'm going to close this bug, but if you see problems with FC3 or a recent version of xscreensaver or X, please feel free to reopen.
Correct. I have not seen this problem with FC1