nVidia GeForce 2 Ti NV15DDR Xorg problems

**rossmounce** · August 3rd, 2010

I'm running Peppermint OS (32-bit) on an old computer [details further below].

The problem: Xorg takes up 50-100% of my CPU all the time. This is very annoying. I think it's something to do with my graphics card driver (perhaps?).

Any ideas how I could fix this or further illuminate what's going on?

Thanks

output from top:

"
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
701 root 20 0 56712 21m 8880 R 50.1 2.1 93:22.47 Xorg
4433 ross 20 0 53584 11m 8828 S 11.2 1.1 0:09.38 lxterminal
5404 ross 20 0 51168 17m 7320 S 10.6 1.7 7:55.08 lxtask
4576 ross 20 0 173m 43m 22m S 3.6 4.4 2:16.85 prism-bin
2136 ross 20 0 284m 103m 29m S 2.3 10.3 18:16.71 firefox-bin
3722 ross 20 0 250m 54m 27m S 1.3 5.4 2:39.24 prism-bin
1076 ross 20 0 84576 17m 12m S 0.7 1.7 3:22.90 lxpanel
6010 ross 20 0 2536 1160 888 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.37 top
"

output from inxi -F:

System: Host ross-lab Kernel 2.6.32-22-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Peppermint
CPU: Single core AMD Athlon (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 2289.97 clocked at 1144.986 MHz
Graphics: Card nVidia NV15DDR [GeForce2 Ti] X.Org 1.7.6 Res: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 driver EMU10K1_Audigy at port d000
Card-2 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controllerdriver Intel ICH at ports d800 d400
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port cc00
Disks: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (7.3% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi HCS72502 250.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 23G used: 2.2G (10%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 205G used: 15G (8%) fs: ext4
ID:swap-1 size: 2.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 126 Uptime 3:55 Memory 415.2/1002.4MB Client Shell inxi 1.3.2

**rollin** · August 3rd, 2010

Hi and welcome but surely you would be better off asking it at the Peppermint Forum? http://peppermintos.net/index.php

**rossmounce** · August 3rd, 2010

Already did: http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1211

[That thread is locked now, I'd like a little more explanation than just that my card "is not officially supported" if that's do-able?]

The thing is, it's not a Peppermint specific problem. I had exactly the same problem when I had Ubuntu (Lucid) installed (only worse, because the rest of the system used more resources, switching to Peppermint has alleviated it somewhat but it's still a problem...).

Would changing graphics driver help? I've read there's 'nv' and 'nouveau' drivers possibly available(?) however i'm fairly novice at using linux so I don't even know which driver I'm using atm tbh...

**rollin** · August 3rd, 2010

Well I had a quick look at the linked post. The Mod did mention the threadjacking and to open another post if your issue is not solved. Unfortunately as I am not familiar with Peppermint I'll be honest and say I can't think of a quick solution. I'd still recommend you follow the Mod advice and create a linked post at the Peppermint Forum. Other than that you could try starting with https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia. This should help you to install a restricted driver for the card and see if that helps. Short of the advice above you could wait to see if someone here is running an Ubuntu dual boot with Peppermint who can help more. Good luck either way!