I am experiencing similar behaviour running Hardy on a Lenovo z61p laptop with Mobility FireGL V5200 VGA controller and the ATI accelerated graphics driver in dual head mode with a separate desktop on the secondary display.
When the screensaver has been activated, once the main screen has become fully blank, the secondary screen does not blank, but keeps the same desktop showing. Moving the mouse or pressing shift have no effect, and neither screen responds to mouse clicks (the cursor is still active and will move across both screens). I can recover by switching to a console and killing the gnome- screensaver-gl-helper process. When I kill this process the first time, another instance of the process is created (and the screen still does not respond), but when I kill that second instance of the process, the (Gnome) screens are active again. Also, the Gnome screensaver preferences dialogue will not work when operating in dual head mode. The dialogue box opens, but it hangs before any content is displayed in the dialogue. It all works fine in single head mode. (Note, I am not using Compiz as that will not work in dual head mode.) -- GL screensaver hangs when using multiple displays https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200804 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
