X server grabbing 90%+ cpu and stalling system

tridius · 01-18-2006, 02:14 PM

Anyone having a problem wi the X server stalling the UI and grabbing 90%+ of the cpu time and causing KDE to freeze?
I have FC 4 with KDE and KDevelop updates (with dependencies) installed.
I also have the NVIDIA Geoforce 4 pkg installed.

Any ideas?

Mark

w6bi · 01-20-2006, 01:08 AM

Just for testing purposes, trying replacing the Nvidia driver with the vanilla vesa driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

That should drive your hardware enough to get X going. If it reduces the CPU consumption, then you've narrowed the list of suspect subsystems. (If it doesn't, you've at least removed the video driver from that list...)

tridius · 01-20-2006, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by w6bi

Just for testing purposes, trying replacing the Nvidia driver with the vanilla vesa driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

That should drive your hardware enough to get X going. If it reduces the CPU consumption, then you've narrowed the list of suspect subsystems. (If it doesn't, you've at least removed the video driver from that list...)

Thanks for the advice. In the end I got sick of it and simply reinstalled the system.
The problem went away.
I haven't reinstalled the NVidia drivers.