[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[Dan Linder]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:12, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> I was quite disappointed to find that X is still segfaulting occasionally
> even after the upgrade.  It usually (but not always) happens when I'm
> not doing anything on the console -- just a blank screensaver while
> I'm away.  Gonna have to track that one down.  This also happened before
> the upgrade, so don't let it scare your friend.


I've been getting some odd X11 behavior too.  I can't say if it's strictly
due to Ubuntu, the NVidia graphics drivers, or with a heating problem with
my cards...  I too run the "Classic" mode - the Unity desktop didn't like
working with my triple-screen / two card system and I don't need the eye
candy chewing up CPU+GPU resources.

My biggest annoyance is that X11 ramps up to 100% CPU (on one core).  The
mouse moves find, but the screen stops updating (Xterm cursors stop
blinking, clock stops updating, etc), and Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/F3 don't bring up
an alternative text console.  I can ssh in
 and try killing X11 but I usually just to a reboot.

What drivers are you using?  I'm using nvidia-current
@ 270.41.19-0ubuntu1~xup~natty (per "dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia")

Dan

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