gnome-screensaver doesn't work with compiz

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

Feisty (7.04)

I believe this is fixed in gutsy. Please reopen the bug if you can reproduce with an up-to-date gutsy install.

Happens on both cd install Tribe Beta Released September 27th, 2007 and Updated from feisty...

I have fglrx ati on x550 and x700...

When starting compiz --- visual effects --- Normal, Extra or Custom

Screensaver set to 1, 2, 3 etc... Any screensaver selected... screen goes black and back to desktop pretty fast...
Power settings all to never...
After a few flashes more or less 10 the screen goes black and stays black until mouse move...

at 10 mins setting the screen goes black stays blak until mouse move...

No compiz --- all works fine...

This problem seems to have reappeared. My most recent update of gutsy is now causing this problem to occur, where it did not before. Using Restricted Repository's nvidia-glx drivers

This works for me now. I use gutsy with the original nvidia-driver.

Same problem here.

xorg-driver-fglrx 2.6.22.4-14.10

 The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

I have this issue in an updated Hardy with Compiz.
I have an Intel 865G Video chip with the intel driver.
What more information can I provide?

Same issue here... how can we debug what's happening when the screensaver is about to activate?

If someone knows i will provide that info...

same issue here: "When compiz/gldesktop is enabled, gnome-screensaver doesn't work. it slowly fades to black, then flashes and the desktop is there again."

unomz@omz-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux omz-desktop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

omz@omz-desktop:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l

omz@omz-desktop:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

omz@omz-desktop:~$ compiz --version
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 03:00.0 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (800x600) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
compiz 0.7.6

omz@omz-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

omz@omz-desktop:~$ lshw
USB
omz-desktop
    description: Computer
    width: 32 bits
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 0
          size: 511MiB
     *-cpu
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.10.0
          size: 1900MHz
          width: 32 bits
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up ts
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 0
             size: 128KiB
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 1
             size: 512KiB
<...>
mingnt=3 module=pata_amd
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: nForce2 AGP
             vendor: nVidia Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: c1
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5 module=nvidia
omz@omz-desktop:~$

please reopen this, it is very important to me ( boss is bitching about this )

Regarding my last comment[0], i would like to let you know that:

I recently upgraded my ubuntu installation ( 8.04 ) to 8.10 and the bug has gone, i.e. gnome-screensaver works OK even when compiz/gldesktop is enabled.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/122084/comments/12

On my Notebook (HP/Compaq NC6310) with Intel 945GM-Chipset I have the same problem in Ubuntu 8.10. Only the setting "none" in "Visual Effects" lets all screensavers run without errors.

With activated effects only any simple savers running. The saver GLMatrix or Atlantis then starts with black screen. In the preview-mode they starts for a lot of seconds and blankout after moving the mouse outside the active savername.

If You need more informations, say me, what You need.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release (maybe live CD)? Thanks in advance.

There seem to be a few others with this bug, so before sending it to developers can you include the following files (just to make sure an error isn't occuring somewhere):
~/.xsession-errors
 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and the output of lspci -vvnn (to determine hardware).
(restarting the clock by labelling incomplete)

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.