After upgrading to Feisty I have the same Problem. When I left my computer for several hours alone the Desktop seems to work (Clock changes, Knewsticker is running) but when I move the mouse the Display freeze and the Keyboard stops working. In some cases the effect could happen after a few minutes. 2 days ago, I disabled the Screensaver, but the Bug still occurs. The xorg process is running with nearly 100% CPU Time. An strace shows, that it loops on this command: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) dmesg shows something interesting: [ 153.572298] NET: Registered protocol family 4 [ 153.636382] NET: Registered protocol family 3 [ 153.727573] NET: Registered protocol family 5 [ 159.658624] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 159.931681] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [36590.032279] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [36590.032286] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=2035. [36590.480003] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf26 [36598.474546] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf27 [36606.469088] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf28 [36614.463632] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf29 [36622.458174] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2a [36630.452719] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2b [36638.447264] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2c [36646.441807] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2d [36654.436351] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2e [36662.430896] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf2f [36670.425442] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf30 [36678.419985] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf31 [36686.414530] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf32 [36694.409075] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf33 [36702.403618] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf34 [36710.398162] NVRM: Xid (0005:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 005eaf35 [36936.795626] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [36936.795633] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=2036. [37134.660593] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37134.660600] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=46288. [37144.653773] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out Take a look at the lag between [ 159.931681] [36590.032279]. After killing xorg with kill -9 there are new entris in dmesg: [36936.795626] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [36936.795633] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=2036. [37134.660593] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37134.660600] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=46288. [37144.653773] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37144.653780] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=1289. [37450.445078] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37450.445086] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=74039. [37460.438258] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37460.438265] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=1542. [37722.259577] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37722.259584] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=63042. [37741.246615] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [37741.246622] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=3294. [38081.014820] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out [38081.014827] eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=2045. [38150.386362] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1544) [38150.386371] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed I tried to restart X but it doesn't work: (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled. (EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving (EE) NVIDIA(0): interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device (EE) NVIDIA(0): PCI:5:0:0. Please see Chapter 5: Common Problems in the (EE) NVIDIA(0): README for additional information. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" Chapter5 says something about irg Sharing. Perhaps the root of this problem is a problem between the Network Card an the NVIDIA Adapter? Perhaps somebody has an Idea how I can check this? Compare lspci and ifconfig perhaps?