official nVidia driver causes Xorg to burn up CPU, freeze system

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Tuesday, August 9, 2011 10:11:26 AM Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Kubuntu 11.04 on my HP machine, there is a Core 2 Duo 2.00 GHz
> with a nVidia 9500 GT 1GB. I use the official nVidia driver which gives
> good performance for KWin and OpenGL.
> 
> Sometimes, when I resize a window, Xorg starts to burn up 100% of the
> CPU time and the computer is frozen. I can only access it via SSH and
> that is very slow.
> 
> I can `sudo killall -9 xorg`, but then I loose all my data. What can I
> do to recover from those freezes without loosing my data in open
> applications?
> 
> What log files can I post for you to be able to diagnose the problem
> better?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 

Does your entire machinge irreveriably freeze  when you try to resize a konsole window?  Mine did.  I installed the 275.19 driver and it is working a whole lot better now.  Grab the latest from here, it's the 280.13 version.  _Purge_ all nvidia* packages then install the downloaded one.  
Any kernel update will break it since it will not automagically recompile.  You just need to boot into safe mode and run nvidia-xconfig in a root shell.
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