GL screensavers show on partial screen

[Charlie Figura]

Binary package hint: kscreensaver

On two different machines running Dapper (up-to-date upgrades), a sony vaio b100 with an i855GME display driver and on a Dell D620 with a i945GM display driver, the GL screensavers show up on the upper 2/5 or so of the screen, with the lower portion blank. This happens every time the screensaver is activated, including when restoring from suspend-to-disk.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this rectified by installing kscreensaver-xsavers or xscreensaver-gl?

If so, please mark this as a duplicate of bug 44631, as the solution is the same.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

No, kscreensaver-savers and xscreensaver-gl have no affect. I have
not found any error messages generated by this error, either.

Hobbsee wrote:
> Is this rectified by installing kscreensaver-xsavers or xscreensaver-gl?
>
> If so, please mark this as a duplicate of bug 44631, as the solution is
> the same.
>
> ** Changed in: kdeartwork (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>

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[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

No - there is no effect in installing kscreensaver-xsavers or xscreensaver-gl. I have not found that any error message is generated, either.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

right.

Do you have xscreensaver installed, and what happens if you remove it? I've seen this before, but i've forgotten exactly what the solution is, hence the guesses. And i cant currently reproduce it here, as this isnt a fresh install.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

No, I did not have xscreensaver installed. Installation had no effect,
the problem remains.

Hobbsee wrote:
> right.
>
> Do you have xscreensaver installed, and what happens if you remove it?
> I've seen this before, but i've forgotten exactly what the solution is,
> hence the guesses. And i cant currently reproduce it here, as this isnt
> a fresh install.
>

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                                          [phone] (fax)

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Further research suggests that this is the same as bug 43052. I don't use Amarok (as the original poster of 43052 does), and I haven't seen this GL problem in any other application other than the GL screensavers.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

marking as a duplicate, and added that it seems to work if you install rss-glx to the other bug report.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Installation of rss-glx does install a bunch of gl screensavers that DO work, but the particle-based ones (flux, solar winds, gravity, etc) as well as euphoria and fireworks do not.

Interestingly enough, these are the ones that don't show in the preview window, either.

[Charlie Figura (cfigura)]

Dangit, opened my mouth too fast. rss-glx installs duplicate versions of flux, solar winds, etc. - the _second set_ seems to work just fine, but the orginally-installed versions are still there (and don't work).

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