Bug#415227: Compiz interferes with Screensaver -- unable to unlock a session

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

George Aprozeanu wrote:
> When enabling compiz via the compiz --replace command, as soon as the
> screensaver starts in its default configuration, you cannot see the
> actual image of the screensaver but a blank screen.

What kind of image is that? fullscreen? regular non-moving 2D image? or
some complex 3d stuff that could be hard to combine with the compiz layer?

Does the problem occur with xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver?

Does the problem seem fullscreen-related? (any other fullscreen program
having problem?)

> I'm using Debian etch with pretty much default stuff and updated.
> Screensaver is gnome-screensaver 2.14.3-3. Compiz is 0.2.2-1. My video
> card is Intel 950G and i use the i810 driver. Other things work fine
> with compiz.

There are multiple more recent upstream releases that could possibly fix
this problem. If you have time to debug, you could try some of the
following packages from experimental:
* compiz, compiz-core, ... 0.3.6-1
* xserver-xorg-core 2:1.2.99.902-1 (eventually with
xserver-xorg-video-intel and xserver-xorg-video-i810 2:1.9.92-1)
* maybe mesa 6.5.2-3 too

Brice