Xorg eating the CPU

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:41 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the last update last night, my laptop is running 60-80% CPU
> intense processing.  According to top, this is due to Xorg (although
> earlier today before I rebooted, it was system-udevd that was eating
> the CPU).
>
> This is new and disrupting all the processing on my laptop.  The only
> change I made was to install the nvidia driver (361), which is the
> correct driver for my video card and an older version of which I was
> running on 14.04 before upgrading a couple of weeks ago.
>
> Any suggestions on what to look for?
>
> Thanks.
> MR
It seems I updated to the wrong nvidia driver - 367.  According to the
kern.log, nvidia doesn't support my video card beyond version 340.  I
installed that and the problem went away.

Sorry to bother everyone.  Hope it helps the next person.
MR