gnome-screensaver update causing crashes

[Regular User]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

Few days ago there was a gnome-screensaver update that I've installed. It seems that now when the screensaver is active my machine crashes in random moments (it could be in a few minutes or in an hour) and it didn't happen before. I don't know what could this be but I thought on reporting it because it seems that the update was to fix something like that and now I have a problem that I didn't had before :(

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

I have to add to this bug that when I play a video on MPlayer (full screen or normal screen) and error pops up at the end that reads "screen_saver_control()" (see the attachment) and this is happening after the gnome-screensaver update...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please attach your X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to the bug report and also the ~/.xsession-errors.

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

Well, I haven't those crashes in a while but I will attach those files anyways and update them when I get another crash.

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

I zipped them all :)

[tomgrady (tomgrady)]

What kind of video card do you have? I ( and I think others ) are having a similar problem and we have Radeon vid cards

Tom Grady
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[Regular User (dot.ru)]

I have an Nvidia card, Geforce 5200 128MB.

[tomgrady (tomgrady)]

Thanks for your response.

My gut feeling is yours may be a different bug than mine, as apparently your screensaver was up and running and you have a different vid card.

I am a newbie to Linux, and my installation of Ubuntu is only one week old. I fixed my printer by downloading a driver from a website, since obviously, my printer software was not written for Linux. Since there seems to be others on the message board with a similar problem to mine, ( with the Radeon card) I suspect it is the driver.

I brought up my Ubuntu device manager ( on the toolbar:system\administration\device manager) and it seems it is not recognising the ATI Radeon vid card. I went to the ATI/Radeon site, downloaded the driver for my vid card, and downloaded it to my desktop. I rebooted, tried to load the screensaver, and it (the screensaver) locked everything up causing me to uplug and reboot again.

After rebooting, I tried to mouseclick the file for driver installation ( I had assumed it installed itself on the previous attempt) and it would not open.

After a little websurfing, I went to here :

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide

Indeed, they had some Linux drivers here for whatever. It requires you to enable the "restricted depository" before downloading. They had a lot of info for me to digest on the Radeon card. Looks like it might be a shell fix, for which I have no experiance, but doesn't look to hard. Probably can just cut and paste it in.

I have run out of time for computer-playing-around, and will try to do more on it tonight.

Again, I appreciate your response, and would like to know if you would be interested in sharing knowledge on Linux --- it would be nice to have someone to bounce ideas off of.

Do you have much experiance in the scripting shells ?

Tom Grady

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> I have an Nvidia card, Geforce 5200 128MB.
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[Regular User (dot.ru)]

If its Linux I'm interested :)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.