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I'm running Mepis 6.0 which auto installs powersave. If I leave powersave running the screensavers work fine. When I disable powersave I no longer get screensavers. Have a AMD64 Athlon on a ECS KN1 Lite motherboard w/ Nividia 6500 PCIE video. This PC runs 24/7 so I don't want powersave (OK for laptops I guess). Anyone got an idea on this.

Screensaver

I covered this in a previous post this may be your problem.
Here is a repeat copy of text of solution:

Final version 6.0 there is a bug in kde 3.5 that may be causing problem was okay in previous releases.This is what I did and has worked on 2 computers now with no problems.If a different version of Mepis maybe someone else can help you.

If you wish to try this go in Root first and back up this file libkdeinit_kdesktop.so found in root/user/lib in case this does not work for you.
Go to: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=42637&PHPSESSID=c09609f04b0207cc30ee70bae78fca9c
and download file 42637-kdesktop_3.5.3-0ubuntu0.2_FIX_i386.
After downloaded I clicked on 42637-kdesktop_3.5.3-0ubuntu0.2_FIX_i386 file then on user then click on lib folder right click and copy libkdeinit_kdesktop.so within this folder.
Now go to root/user/lib and right click paste libkdeinit_kdesktop.so it will ask you to overwrite file this is okay.
After you have done this reboot computer and try screensaver again in user mode and it should be okay.

John

Screensaver

My bad. I did see this but thought it was referring to different problem.
GREAT fix now all is well!!!

alwoodsr

Thanks

I had this issue too.

My screensaver works again now.

Cheers.

mepismann's picture

Screensaver woes

Thanks, I did what you advised and my screensaver works! I never thought it was a bug in KDE, I thought it was something I did playing around. I played with the power save options, set them and then test and see what happens. It was driving me crazy! Thanks again!

Worked great but now I can not set a wallpaper any longer??

Any clues? I really like this product.

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