this issue disappeared for me when I upgraded to Intrepid. My guess, given all the info available, is that the nvidia driver is the culprit. Intrepid has a later version (unless it has since been backported to Hardy, but I don't think it has).
-- [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