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On 10/19/2010 10:32 AM, Grant wrote: |
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> I've been using the nouveau video driver for a while, but lately video |
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> has been freezing with X at 100% CPU and the only way out seems to be |
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> ssh'ing in and rebooting. |
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Not that it will help with your bug, but I'm curious to know what video |
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hardware you're using. I had the same problem with my ancient nv34 card, |
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which got fixed a few weeks ago in Linus's git kernel. |
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OTOH, I've seen the same sort of freeze reported in the nouveau mailing |
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list for other nvidia chips, so YMMV. Video drivers all seem to support |
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a dozen different chips from the same manufacturer, which introduces some |
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random noise into the bug reports. |
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> I tried to switch to the nvidia driver but X won't load and Xorg.0.log |
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> says it can't find a CorePointer device... |
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Not sure why the nvidia driver would be related to that, unless maybe |
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you're using a different xorg.conf for nvidia. |
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Unless you have some weird pointing devices, you should no longer need |
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any input section in xorg.conf for either keyboard or mouse -- delete any |
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references to keyboard or mouse, and install the xf86-input-evdev package. |
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Your X server should find and use the evdev driver automatically, without |
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any help from xorg.conf. |
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