I'm having a similar issue with my jaunty installation, the cpu usage goes to 100% with an intel card as well and the brightness goes also crazy, after a few minutes the cpu usage does down and everything is back to normal, could be this more like a driver issue?
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => xorg Status: Incomplete => New ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- jaunty xorg 100% cpu usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs