*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 307306 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307306
What are your specs on the Dell E6400? I recently got one & it has
the Nvidia 160M video card in it. I've put Jaunty on that machine
with no problems. I did see this bug where the CPU goes to 100% very
quickly with my IBM T30.
Steve
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:11 AM, odaagan <teitur.arnar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 307306 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307306
>
> This comment is for those novise like me who mainly want a working
> system and are not primarilly looking to fix the bug.
>
> I had the described problem after upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty a
> couple of weeks ago. Xorg always over 30% CPU and often over 80%, even
> though I wasn't doing anything.
>
> Running Dell Latitude E6400, 4 gig memory etc. I did try to kill power-
> manager and settings-daemon without any result. No vino-server running.
>
> The behavior disappeared when I downgraded all xserver-xorg-<whatever>
> packages back to the Intrepid version, and now the system is faster than
> ever:-)
>
> Since you who will go for this solution probably are as novice as me I
> will outline just how I did the downgrade (which might not be the
> standard way, I don't know).
>
> edit the file /etc/apt/sourses.list (for instance sudo vim
> /etc/apt/sourses.list)
> Comment out all lines including the word 'jaunty' (put # in front of the line)
> #deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main multiverse universe
> restricted
> #deb-src http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main multiverse universe
> restricted
> #deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main multiverse
> universe restricted
> #deb-src http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main multiverse
> universe restricted
>
> add the following line (probably overkill with multiverse universe etc., I
> don't know)
> deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main multiverse universe
> restricted
>
> save the file and do
> sudo apt-get update
>
> run aptitude (or your favourite package manager) and downgrade the following
> packages, including their dependencies (in my case 34 dependencies):
> xserver-xorg
> xserver-xorg-core
> xserver-xorg-input-all
> xserver-xorg-video-all
>
> remember to uncomment the sources.list file and run 'sudo apt-get
> update' to reset jaunty repositories (and do not update xserver packages
> as suggested).
>
> --
> jaunty xorg 100% cpu usage
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309776
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>
> Status in “xorg” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> after this week xorg driver update the xorg starts using 100% of one cpu core
> resources.
> when i switch between text console (crtl+alt+f2) and back to X, the xorg load
> goes down.
> then again some regular gnome activity causes Xorg load up.
> I attached recordmydesktop video. I started recording terminal with top
> running.
> After that i don't do anything. Suddenly xorg processor usage goes up.
> And before the end i brought the load down switching display in text mode and
> back to X.
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