Intermittent freezing

[Takehiko Abe]

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