Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

[Rhaziel]

Hi,
I'm kind of new to Linux/ubuntu and I'm new to this forum so sorry if i made the thread in the wrong place. SO as i said I'm new to Linux and i have almost no idea whats going on in the system.
I've spent some time on BT3 and Kubuntu 8.10 and move to 9.04

and here I've got a problem.
till today my OS was running flawlessly.
today i installed some standard updates that were communicated by my software manager.
after that my laptop became slower - xorg consumes on idle around 30-40% PCU power.
let me add, my machine is Dual Core 2x1.86 ram2GB.
Launching Firefox with Amarok makes my lap almost die.

What's the problem?

PS: I've found some topic on getting new Intel drivers however while attempting that i encountered some errors and gave up.

PS2: I've been doing some other stuff beforehand which may have something to do with it:
install/uninstall Wine
install/uninstall Compiz

[aged hippy]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Have you re-booted? It may be a problem left over from your "install/uninstall Wine install/uninstall Compiz"

[Rhaziel]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Sure man, done it like 5 times already. Since i tried different methods for fixin this, among other changing the device configuration. which is stil set to this uxe or whatever its called

[aged hippy]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

It was just a thought...

I won't be of much help as i don't use Jaunty.

[Rhaziel]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Oh btw, i think its my faulty Vga driver? however someone has to tell me...



pls anyone help...

[josefko]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Try to think if you didn't install something else even small, for example certain widgets can cause that Xorg runs high.

[Rhaziel]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Yo, man stay with me. im currently on Vista. I think i did install something like a widget. i need to relog and check it. one thing for sure, i installed a lot of stuff (among others: downloaded some wallpapers using package manager).
Mate, u have any idea is there a log of installs or something??

thanx for interest

[vinnywright]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

try in this order

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get check

dpkg --configure -a

just to check for broken packages from all adding and removing.

mite want a

sudo apt-get autoclean

and

sudo apt-get autoremove

as well.

Mate, u have any idea is there a log of installs or something??

well

dpkg-query -l | more

will list the packages on the system (hold enter for more) it's a LONG list

allso if you boot to recovery moad thar's a repar x or xrepar at the bottom of the options...(it's ben a wile and I onley looked once)

VINNY


VINNY

[josefko]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

There is an option on menu in Synaptic that shows you day after day what you installed. But I do not know if there is something there if you didn't install using Synaptic.
You can see installed widgets on desktop.
I think it must be something currently running, not an ordinary program.

[Rhaziel]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

@josefko,
Man this plasma stuff is so twisted, i tried to uninstall the widgets but i could only turn em off - cant uninstall. btw i ruined my desktop

@Vinny
mate, i'm gonna do all you said in a sec and report back.
Btw, i tried the repair x mode - some weird stuff came out - couldnt bypass it. if it's possible i'll try to copy it somehow and will show you if nothing of what you advised helps. thanx
wait for an edit of my post

[josefko]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

i ruined my desktop

If it is really bad:
1. Press Ctrl+Esc, kill plasma, screen will be black
2. Press Alt+F2. It will launch KRunner, run Dolphin and rename .kde directory in your home. System will create the new one.
3. Run plasma from KRunner.
You will get fresh desktop like after upgrade to the new version and you will lose some settings, if you have done some. You can save something from the old .kde, for example kmail files.
Maybe this will uninstall your widgets.

i tried to uninstall the widgets

The standard way to uninstall widgets is:
1. Click right mouse button on desktop and choose Unlock widgets
2. Then you move above a widget with a mouse and there shows up a panel on widget side.
3. Click a cross down on a panel and the widget disappeares.
4. Click right mouse button on destop and choose Lock widgets.

[Guest]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

I had the same problem, and adding 'Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"' to /etc/X11/xorg.conf worked for me - it now looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

The Ubuntu Wiki has more detaul:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...202.8%20driver

I am using Mint 7, not plain Kubuntu, but they should be the same at this level.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

I got the same problem when I upgraded KDE a month or so ago.

The solution for me was to rename my home/ .kde file to .kde.old and reboot. The system creates a new file and thereafter it ran fine.

The hassle is that you then have to reconfigure your desktop and copy any application data from the .kde.old to the new .kde file. but at least it solved the problem for me.

Hope this helps

[Rhaziel]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

well guys it seems i partially succeeded in restoring some of my performance. however its still laggin sometimes.

@graemep - i'll try to do the thing u advised me.
@liquidator - i'm sorry, i'm still a noob and i've been having some problems renaming some systems items from the kde. maybe i should do it from the shell? what would be the prompt?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Intel GM965 Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - Xorg racing CPU to 40% non-stop

Assuming you have a home icon on your desktop, click on it. Then from within dolphin select view/show hidden files. Within your /home directory you will see a folder called .kde (the "dot" denotes a hidden file). That contains all the config details for your desktop. Simply right click on the folder and select "rename". Call it .kde.old. Then simply log out then log in.

On login a new .kde folder will be created and you will get a fresh kde desktop - you will have lost any configurations to your old desktop but call it a clean slate without having to reinstall. My belief is that your problem will go away, and you can reconfigure as you wish.

I advocate renaming rather than deleting the original .kde file because in addition to the config files a number of apps that ship with Kde store their data in that folder as well. If you are using programs such as kmail, kontact, korganiser etc you will want to copy the folders for those applications from the .kde.old file to the new one created at logon.