Brandon Hume wrote: > Since b117, I've had a problem with the screensaver when it locks. I'm > currently running b121 on a Dell 7400 with an nVidia Quattro card, with two > monitors hooked up and a Sun Type6 keyboard hooked up via USB. > > With b117, the password dialog would appear half on one screen and half on > the other. The half on the second head would flicker very rapidly... like > it's fighting for the Z-position with the blank area. Also, although the > dialog box would appear quickly, the box would be very slow taking input... > ten to fifteen seconds for the black dots to appear. Not per-keystroke, mind > you... if I typed quickly, there'd be a 10-15 second pause, and then the > "dots" would all appear over the course of about 3-4 seconds, and the > screensaver would disengage. > > Sometimes it would never react... although the timeout bar would count down > at a mostly-normal pace. The keystrokes would simply be lost. > > With b121, the dialog box will choose a head to appear centred on, not spread > across both. It's solid on the first head, flickers madly on the second. > The input problems remain regardless of which head it appears on. > > > Has anyone else observed this behaviour? > and
Hillel Lubman wrote: > I have exactly the same issue when set up dual screen. When I switch back > from dual screen to one disabled - this behavior stops. I was also wondering > if anyone had this issue. May be it's something to do with particular NVIDIA > card? It worth to file a bug about it. > Known bug and not specific to the NVIDIA graphics driver. Please test this fix: http://home.comcast.net/~jdmartin99/xscreensaver.x86_NV121_fixes_all_problem.tar.gz It replaces /usr/X11/bin/xscreensaver (save a copy).
