Nigel Bishop :
I am running Fedora 13 with Linux Kernel 2.6.33-3.85.fc13.x86_64 with
Gnome
2.30.0 on HP laptop ProBook 4510S
At times, it almost freezes, with very slow response to the keyboard. System
monitor shows that something is hogging the CPU. Sometimes, after a few
minutes, it recovers, other times I have to re-boot.
If your laptop uses Intel graphics, the culprit might be:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312
I had a similar problem and was able to fix it by undoing the fedora
patch for xorg-x11-drv-intel as suggested by Colin Macdonald:
Comment #70
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528312#c70