KDE 3.1 screensavers don't work - RedHat 9
 

I can see the screensavers listed in the Control Center; pressing the Test button does nothing, and using Lock always gives me a blank screen. This is true for all screensavers that I try to select/Test in the Control Center.

don't try to use the kde screensaver. disable it and try this command:

Xscreensaver
 

Yeah, I know about xscreensaver, and it's a decent workaround. Not a solution though.

A lot of the screensavers need opengl support, if it's not there they will fail silently, the same applies to xscreensaver, start it from a console, test a few opengl savers and look for error messages.

i heard that RH had a fix on their site. try there.

I have the same problem with the screensavers as mentioned above. could someone point me to a fix for this problem, if on the RH website where abouts cause searched everywhere for one.

what is xscreensaver?

My screen saver was not working so I ran xscreensaver. The response from the shell told me to log in as a user. Apparently being logged in as root causes security issues when running certain screen savers.
This is my first post, hope it helps.