video card driver necessary?

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday July 10 2007 1:47:56 pm Robin Laing wrote:
> My daughter can lock up my Nvidia based destop almost at will.  Xorg is
> using all the processing power and if I ssh into the machine and kill
> it, then all is well.
>
> Keyboard response is gone, so no other terminal can be opened locally.
> I am going to try to debug this but it never happened before putting in
> the Nvidia driver from Livna.

Which driver are you running, Robin. There's some discussion over on the 
freshrpms list about the latest nvidia driver causing 100% CPU utilization 
after some time. The fix is to revert to the previous driver. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD