I'm going to have to agree on this one. Maybe gnome-screensaver should have some intelegence and not to try to use gl screensavers when dri is disabled and on cards known not to have very good opengl performance.
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- User switching burns CPU without video accleration https://launchpad.net/bugs/55066 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs