i have been running 9.10 for some time now and its has been progressively getting worse where by the screen saver wont kick in and i have been blaming ubuntu all along


well a few days ago i pulled the pc to bits for a good clean with my air compressor and found the fan on the video card was faulty. it is a nvidia fx5500 agp

the fan had ceased so i replaced it with a standard off the shelf 50mm fan and a couple of self tapper screws. a bit rough, but i fixed it for zero bucks and the screen saver works every single time now without fail