I have found that the effects of this bug are a lot less severe if driconf is used to turn on vertical blanking synchronization. It's kind of a half-workaround. The screensavers are still really slow, but they terminate pretty soon (after a few seconds) on mouse movement.
-- braid and other screensavers lock up system when compiz activated [-intel, -nvidia] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/101943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs