Trying a different driver was going to be my next suggestion.
Actually, I had a problem with my Ubuntu 11.04 install (Unity) tonight. After
an update and reboot the CPU usage went up to 100% and stayed there. By
looking at top I could see that it was xorg that was chomping on the CPU. I
- Forwarded Message -
From: Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com
To: Matthieu Herrb matthieu.he...@laas.fr
Sent: Sunday, 21 August 2011 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: sticky xkb options ?
Hi, Try:
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “DontZap” “yes”
EndSection
in xorg.conf
I just verified
There's this message on the archlinux bug site that seems to be similar:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25323
See if there's anything there that might help.
Chris
From: Sapfeer sapf...@gmail.com
To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 August
...@ashlandhome.net
To: Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com
Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: X server crashing
It seems X does not check for null pointers so instead of doing something
gracefull it crashes.
If you are using
before
introducing any breakage. :-)
Thanks,
Chris
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From: cour...@web.de cour...@web.de
To: Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com; xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: X server crashing
the problem, or put in a bug
report to Slackware if it does not.
Thanks
Chris
- Original Message -
From: Russell Whitaker r...@ashlandhome.net
To: Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com
Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:54 AM
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help as I haven't got much hair left.
Background:
I've installed Slackware 13.37 on a spare PC (Celeron 2.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, ATI Rage
128 video card) and everything went well after a moderately steep learning
curve. I could start kde and use it. However, I'm running