going dim

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Vincent Arnoux <vincent.arnoux at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:25, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Nope, the dimming business hit me again.  Application dimmed, CPU usage
>> went
>> > to 100%, only got better after rebooting.  I have no proprietary drivers
>> > installed.
>> >
>> > gary
>>
>> When you write "application dimmed", do you mean the whole desktop
>> darkens, or only some windows go black and white?
>> When it happens, if you type control-alt-F1, log in with your usual
>> user name and type "top", can you see which process goes through the
>> roof?
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>> The dimming just occured while I was running FF, update manager and
>> xsensor.  Everything dimmed.  I am not sure  that it is always the case that
>> everything dims.  Did control-alt-F1 then top, FF was taking maybe 7-9%,
>> Update from 7-60%, and another program maybe 5-7%.   Maybe FF jumped once or
>> twice.  But nothing really took over.  The screen undimmed of its own
>> accord, so this was not one of the those times where anything froze.
>>
>
> gary
>

I can add a bit more info.  Screen refresh had become very sluggish.  With
FF running without sound or video and Skype the same, Pulse Audio was taking
20% of the CPU, FF froze after I checked cpu usage.

Everything was fine after I rebooted.

gary
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