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