Lion OS Screen Saver bug.

Hi

I had both Airparrot and Airplay installed on my mid 2010 machine and ones the problem started noted this thread and uninstalled both the programs.

I thought I have completely cleaned it, - Rebooted the machine - But this is still happening

I have searched via spotlight for anything with reference to "Air" with no avail.

When I installed Airparrot - It indicated that an additional driver had to be installed. - I accepted and continued the installation

When i deleted the programs would it have removed that additional installed driver.. -Or should that manually be removed

Any adivise or suggestion or corrections would be appreciated

Thank you in Advance

I have the same problem. I have Airparrot installed on a mid 2010 MBP and there is a note on the Airparrot website indicating that this is the cause of my problem.

Actually it states that a bug in the display driver for the Nvidia graphics card is causing the problem, and that removing the Airparrot driver will fix the issue.

Waiting for a response as to how to remove the driver - it isn't on the website.

I am also having this issue since installing Airparrot. Our MacBook Air is not having the issue and it also has Airparrot.

Hi bigstick, I'm trying this right now:

http://airparrot.com/download/AirParrot%20Removal%20Tool.zip

I found the instructions on the web with Google, but e-mailed the author and told him that he really needed to make a removal tool available. Removing kext files is not for the archetypal OS X customer 🙂

I also suggested that he make incompatibility warnings more obvious.

Good to know he's responded positively!

I had this annoying problem of the screen saver poping up as I worked as well. After reading all of the airdisplay issues, I started to think about what type of screen sharing apps I had installed. (I did NOT have airdisplay installed)

I am a long time user and customer of JollyFastVNC. Several weeks ago I decided to try the ScreenRecycler application from the same author. I hadn't uninstalled the driver for that. After uninstalling the driver, this issue with my screen saver popping up went away.

Also, I found that adjusting the screen saver time before display by just 1 minute (from say 12 to 13 mintues) would cause a brief flash of the screen saver on the screen. Then, after the uninstall of Screen Recycler, this also did not happen anymore.

I'm runnning Lion that I downloaded this morning, everything worked just fine until then, now I cannot get my screensaver to run my pictures as my screensaver. Any ideas???? 2.7 processor, 4 gib 1333MHz DDR.

Thanks

I've been having random black screen freezes over the last month since updating to Lion. Lost much work and spent much time trying to determine the cause. This has been a high cost for my employer in terms of person hours and lost work. I also went to the Apple Store and their Genius could find no cause or solution. I have the flurry screensaver pop up over the login screen as well as these freezes. This thread describes exactly the same symptoms I've been having. I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro.

I had been searching for "black screen freeze" postings and just today decided to search for "screensaver at login screen" and found this thread, which seems to have solved my problem. Too bad the Apple Genius didn't know about it.

I had AirDisplay installed, the latest version as of this writing. I removed AirDisplay using Uninstall Air Display.app. It's installed by AirDisplay in the Utilities folder, in case anyone else wants to find it. The flurry screensaver at login window issue is gone now, and I haven't seen any crashes since, though my fingers are still crossed.

Thank you for locating the AirParrot uninstaller. They buried it in the FAQs on their site. Your link is broken because it has spaces in the filename. This should work:

http://airparrot.com/download/AirParrotRemovalTool.zip

I have Air Parrot but haven't installed it yet. I certainly won't now unless they specifically state that the problem with our models has been solved. Even then probably not. My confidence has been shaken.

I'm going to give feedback to Apple and the makers of AirDisplay. One or the other or both should have an alert that pops up during installation warning users with our models of this issue. As I said, this has been very expensive for my employer, probably thousands of dollars worth of time wasted all in all. This is a very. serious. problem.

I ran into a similar problem over the last few days on my retina macbook pro.

When I boot up, it goes instantly into the default screen saver (machine name and the apple logo) at the password screen. Once I'm into the OS, Adium and Skype refuse to report me as non-idle.

Thankfully, this post had the solution - the only monitor-like thing I've installed lately are the latest DisplayLink drivers for my USB video card (3rd monitor). Once I uninstalled that, the problem went away.

So add DisplayLink drivers to the list of apps that screw up idle detection (and not just on mid-2010 macbooks).