Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (579 mails)

[Chad Groneman <linuxlistacct@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:30 +0100, Jon Black wrote:
> Hi, I have a shiny new Intel Core Duo T2300 laptop with an nvidia geforce go
> 7400 graphics chipset. When I boot into Linux, there is a process in 'top'
> that is showing a 90% average cpu usage and it won't stop. I cannot kill it.

What is the process showing 90% utilization?  What is it that leads you
to believe it is related to the NVidia chip?  What version of Linux are
you running?  Probably SUSE, but what release?

> There is an events/1 process that is always at 0%. I assume this is
> something to do with the processor and perhaps acpi, since there are two
> events processes and my processor has two cores.
> 

If you suspect the problem is multi-core specific, install the
kernel-default rpm rather than the kernel-smp.  That kernel will only
use one processor (core).

Also, if you suspect acpi, you could try the boot parameter "acpi=off".
This is set if you boot using the failsafe option (from the bootloader).

Thanks,
Chad