FC3 screensavers not working on KDE

[numb]

In Fedora Core 3, only the "random" screensaver works.
Selecting any others result in a blank screen when they load.

Notes:

* I have tried with power managment on and off with no effect.
* The screensavers will run if I run them from commandline.

The fact is that the screensavers work under gnome. On KDE only the kde screensavers work. The xscreensavers present the problem above.

i read other posts on this but no reply. please help me!

[imdeemvp]

Some users have mentioned it having same problem. I dont use KDE. Do a search in the forum under screensavers.

[numb]

I finally found myself a solution downgrading xscreensaver to xscreensaver-4.14-5 from FC2
It seems this version works under KDE even if I don't think downgrading a packet can be a real solution to a problem.
I wonder why Fedora does not correct what it seems a very simple problem.
Is it true that KDE has less support cause FC is GNOME based?

This is very disappointing.
Thanks anyway

[marcelteun]

As suggested by numb in http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...41&postcount=3 as pointed to by cascadefx, I downgraded my xscreensaver to 4.15-5. However, when I want to configure a screensaver now, I only see the options:

• blank screen
• random

Anybody seen that problem?

Even after upgrading again, I do not see any other screensaver.

[mutronix]

Originally Posted by numb

In Fedora Core 3, only the "random" screensaver works.
Selecting any others result in a blank screen when they load.

Notes:

* I have tried with power managment on and off with no effect.
* The screensavers will run if I run them from commandline.

The fact is that the screensavers work under gnome. On KDE only the kde screensavers work. The xscreensavers present the problem above.

i read other posts on this but no reply. please help me!

I had the same problem. Native video drivers is too bad in 3D graphics, so screensaver didn't work properlly. After I installed nVidia drivers(for my old geForce2) my screensaver become black. You should chenge permissions for /dev/nvidia* to chgrp [your group] and chmod g+rw. This trick solved problem.Maybe somebody know better solution.
P.S: Sorry for my bad english

[marcelteun]

Solved my problems by installing kdeartwork and kdeartwork-icons