Perhaps try the nouveau drivers? Ironically I use those drivers for dual display and have had better luck with nvidia drivers. they also have a new beta out. Curious, what process is eating up the CPU specifically (check gnome system monitor or in cl top)? -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Randy Clarksean <rclarksean at arvig.net> wrote: > > I have Ubuntu 10.10 on a Asus laptop with nVidia GEForce GTX 260M (1 GB) video card. I can attach the projector and have the image shared to an external projector … but the system becomes very bogged down … CPU activity runs at nearly 100% when one tries to switch between desktops, etc. > > > > Anyone else run into a similar problem? > > > > I have checked out the Ubuntu forums and others have similar issues – but I did not find any solutions. > > > > Thoughts and suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance. > > > > Randy > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >