I got the same freeze with the "braid" screensaver. In my case, it looks like it updates about once every few minutes. I clicked a different screensaver and was finally able to get it to respond and deselect braid. System specs:
1 223-0533 XPS 410n, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6320 (1.86GHz,1066FSB) with 4MB cache 1 311-5121 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz 1 310-7963 Dell USB Keyboard 1 320-5338 19 in (19 in viewable)SP1908FPSilver, Flat Panel Display 1 320-4944 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 1 341-3257 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) 1 341-3865 No Floppy Drive Requested 1 420-7143 Ubuntu Desktop Edition version7.04 1 310-7966 Dell Optical USB Mouse 1 313-3607 No modem requested for Dell Dimension 1 313-4422 16X DVD+R/RW CD-RW Combination Drive 1 313-2758 Integrated Audio 1 313-4062 AS501 10W Flat Panel Stereo Speakers for 1704, 1905,2001FPFlat Panels -- Selecting the Molecule screensaver makes the PC freeze. It is completely unresponsive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106060 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs