Re: Gnome 3.2 freezes, then goes 100% CPU

[Benoît Thiébault <thiebault artenum com>]

Installing Nvidia driver indeed did the trick: no more freeze of Gnome 
Shell.

Thanks for your help

Ben

Le 05/12/2011 14:34, Rui Tiago Cação Matos a écrit :
> On 5 December 2011 13:25,<thiebault artenum com>  wrote:
> > I just unplugged the external monitor attached to my laptop and the problem seems to be gone (to be confirmed with time).
> >
> > Should I use nvidia proprietary driver rather than the open source one?
> Yeah, this sometimes happens with nouveau, especially with larger
> framebuffers such as what you get with multiple monitors. Sometimes
> you see nouveau complaining a lot in the dmesg output. Anyway the
> nouveau developers are aware of these issues but I'm told they are
> complex to solve and might take a while.
>
> The nvidia blob might work better for you, but it has other problems
> like missing to implement the latest xrandr APIs.
>
> Rui