Comment 9 for bug 157725

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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From: rpgmaker <email address hidden>
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> I have an Nvidia card, Geforce 5200 128MB.
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> gnome-screensaver update causing crashes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157725
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