[Bug 762918] Re: Natty Screensaver freezes system after some period of inactivity

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Newcomb
Yup, sync_to_vblank seems to work for me, too! Thanks, TreviƱo and Sean! -peter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/762918 Title: Natty Screensaver freezes s

[Bug 762918] Re: Natty Screensaver freezes system after some period of inactivity

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Newcomb
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was using Flash, but I haven't experienced any problems while watching videos, it's just that it seems like the hang only happens sometime after I had viewed a video in full-screen mode. FWIW, I'm running 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i386, though my processor is an i5 (and therefore

[Bug 762918] Re: Natty Screensaver freezes system after some period of inactivity

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Newcomb
Well, looks like the power manager tweak didn't eliminate it after all. However, I'm now starting to suspect full-screen video as a contributing factor, as my most recent "freeze" happened only after I watched a full- screen video for the first time since the power-manager tweak, and I had had inkl

[Bug 762918] Re: Natty Screensaver freezes system after some period of inactivity

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Newcomb
I was experiencing this problem (screen freezes except mouse pointer, but can still Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a terminal) regularly until a few days ago when I went into power manager and set "Put display to sleep when inactive for:" to Never (for both AC and battery). Since then, I have not had the problem