XFCE Hangs

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/12/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
>  Andrew Conkling wrote:
>  On 2/9/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
>  With the crazy NVidia bug, you couldn't even Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a vt; can
> you do this? If so, check 'top' for CPU usage and make sure X isn't
> throttling the CPU. If not, I would say this is something going on
> with X and/or the video driver.
>
>  Followup on my followup: If not, you may also be able to ssh into your
> computer, assuming you have this set up and another computer on which
> to do it. If you can do this, you should be able to check 'top'.
> This is how I found out what happens when NVidia screws X over. :)
>
>  Okay, I SSHed into it when it hung a few minutes ago, and I confirmed it's
> X that's causing the problem (something like 94% of the CPU). I restarted X
> from the SSH terminal. So, what now?

It really does sound like you're running the nvidia drivers.  I'd say,
whichever you're running, switch them.  Also, make sure that this is
actually the file being used when you start X; you may have heard this
before :), but this *really* sounds like the nvidia bug....

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