I can confirm this too. Dell vostro 1500, Intel core2duo 1.4GHZ, 2GB ram, Nvidia 8400M GS, Nvidia beta driver from their website.
It could be related to firefox... -- [Hardy] Xorg high CPU usage with 2.6.24 kernel and nvidia-glx https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178400 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
