On Monday 23 August 2010 12:01:28 Bob Williams wrote:
On Monday 23 August 2010 10:56:56 C wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:27, Bob Williams wrote:
I have a process running as root which is taking 25 - 30% of my processor activity. Htop tells me it's
/usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp - \ auth/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-j1o7xa
It's obviously something to do with the graphic display, but it would seem to me to be using too much of the main CPU.
I have a quad core, 2.8GHz processor with 8Gb Ram, and no particularly graphics intensive software running (Kontact, Firefox, Amarok, gkrellm, Krusader). The graphics card is nVidia GeForce 9600GT.
I'm running openSUSE 11.3 and KDE 4.5.
Sounds familiar...
Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3, Kernel 2.6.34.12-desktop, KDE 4.5.0 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT
If your signature line is correct, and you're running kernel 2.6.34, you could try upgrading to 2.6.35 from Kernel:Head. This has been discussed a fair bit here on the mailing list with various solutions. The one that worked for me with all nVidia/openSUSE11.3 combinations was a kernel upgrade (and of course re-installing the nVidia binary driver)
C.
Yup: :~> uname -r
2.6.34-12-desktop
I'll try a kernel upgrade.
Thanks.
Bob
Well, I tried upgrading to both the Kernel:openSUSE-11.3 and Kernel:Head repos, but neither worked any better. Kernel:openSUSE-11.3 just booted to run level 3, and Kernel:Head grumbled about a load of missing modules, and couldn't find the second partition on my hard drive. Switching kernels is not something I'm familiar with, so I've reverted to the original Desktop kernel. I'm sure this graphics problem with KDE 4 will sort itself out sooner or later, so I'll sit tight and wait. Actually, I know I won't, as soon as I see another suggested cure ;) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3, Kernel 2.6.34.12-desktop, KDE 4.5.0 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org