On Tuesday July 10 2007 1:47:56 pm Robin Laing wrote: > My daughter can lock up my Nvidia based destop almost at will. Xorg is > using all the processing power and if I ssh into the machine and kill > it, then all is well. > > Keyboard response is gone, so no other terminal can be opened locally. > I am going to try to debug this but it never happened before putting in > the Nvidia driver from Livna. Which driver are you running, Robin. There's some discussion over on the freshrpms list about the latest nvidia driver causing 100% CPU utilization after some time. The fix is to revert to the previous driver. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD