Doug wrote:
continuing on, I have reinstalled the entire machine from scratch. This time, leaving my sources.list with stable. it still hangs when I go to load X (I use runlevel 3 to run X, I default to runlevel 2, which I have as just a console login) any other things I can try to get this Xserver from using 99% of my cpu power and making the machine itself unresponsive expect to ssh from a remote computer? This is rather annoying because I can't run anything gui on the local machine.
You got plenty of RAM? An active swap partition? Have you tried VESA instead of nVidia drivers?Try removing gdm/kdm, and just use startx. Try a simple window manager instead of KDE or Gnome.
-- Kent