On 19/04/06, Chad Groneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
Sorry the information wasn't very concise. I am running SUSE 10.1 RC1. During install it was very, very slow, which may or may not be a related issue (worth mentioning in case). I do not think it is related to nvidia but again, wanted to add it to show what I had tried. The process that is taking up 90% of the CPU is called events/0. There is an events/1 process that has 0% of the CPU...I'm not sure what these processes do but I think they are processor related or perhaps acpi. > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
