Excessive CPU usage by DirectoryService

My black MacBook (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) fans are always on and it drives us mad. The culprit is the DirectoryService demon owned by root which is always running at about 60% CPU.
I have written a loop script which kills it off every 4 four seconds but it's not much of a solution as it seems it is quite important!
Two support calls to Apple have not resolved the issue unfortunately. They claim they know nothing about it and didn't even indicate to me what this demon is used for. I had to search the Internet for information.
Does anyone have any ideas why it is using so much CPU and how to tame it? I have tried restarting, deleting the /var/db/DirectoryService and /Library/DirectoryService directories and rebooting but to no avail. It doesn't matter what user logs in or if no user logs in at all! In Safe Boot it doesn't happen though.

Here is some info on troubleshooting it, but I would just go do an Archive and Install to save time.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/Director yService.8.html
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    Calendar    Application Hidden (/Applications/Calendar.app)
    SteerMouse Manager    Application (/Applications/Utilities/SteerMouse.app/Contents/MacOS/SteerMouse Manager.app)
    Mail    Application Hidden (/Applications/Mail.app)
    Android File Transfer Agent    Application (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Google/Android File Transfer/Android File Transfer Agent.app)
    DiskWarriorStarter    Application (/Applications/DiskWarrior.app/Contents/Helpers/DiskWarriorStarter.app)
    finderpop-daemon    Application (/Users/[redacted]/Library/PreferencePanes/FinderPop.prefPane/Contents/Resource s/finderpop-daemon.app)
    XtraFinder    Application Hidden (/Applications/XtraFinder.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 [Support]
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
    Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
    Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.7 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    iGetter Plugin: Version: 2.9.3 [Support]
    iGetterScriptablePlugin: Version: 2.9.3 [Support]
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
    1Password [Installed]
    iGetter Extension [Installed]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    Default Folder X [Support]
    FinderPop [Support]
    FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) [Support]
    SteerMouse [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      105%    Mail
        3%    WindowServer
        2%    sysmond
        2%    Activity Monitor
        0%    fontd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    4.10 GB    Mail
    103 MB    Finder
    86 MB    SophosScanD
    86 MB    InterCheck
    86 MB    WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    84 MB    Free RAM
    2.92 GB    Active RAM
    2.87 GB    Inactive RAM
    2.76 GB    Wired RAM
    2.57 GB    Page-ins
    23 MB    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Jan 28, 2015, 03:37:41 PM    Self test - passed
    Jan 28, 2015, 02:49:01 PM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Android File Transfer Agent_2015-01-28-144901_[redacted].crash
    Jan 28, 2015, 09:31:04 AM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Mail_2015-01-28-093104_[redacted].cpu_resource. diag [Details]
    Jan 28, 2015, 07:39:17 AM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AdobeCrashDaemon_2015-01-28-073917_[redacted].c rash
    Jan 27, 2015, 07:54:29 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AdobeCrashDaemon_2015-01-27-195429_[redacted].c rash

Excess CPU usage

Hello:
Whenever i turn on my computer , my cpu use goes up to 100% and it stays there fluctuating to no less than 70%, the thing is i have no apps running. I unplugged my lan cabel and restarted , and voila the cpu usage got back to normal fluctuating between 5% and 0% , but everytime i plug the cable it goes up again. What could be happening? IS my mac infected? I ran Norton and it found a trojan in my windows partition , i deleted the file. but the problem still continues.
Another thing, Adium cant connect to msn and im the only mac user i know thats having this problem. I think its related.
Any tips would be aweosme!

For the OSX side, get familiar with the +Activity Monitor+ app (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
It will tell you what's using CPU and memory, plus disk and network stats.
Start by selecting either +All Processes+ or +Active Processes+ in the toolbar, and sorting the list by the highest +% CPU.+
And, it has pretty good Help.

MacPro and Excessive CPU usage

Still trying to figure out what is happening to my 2.66 MP.
At least once a day, for no apparent reason, the first core will all of a sudden go to 100% usage and despite what I close, it stays there. I close every app and even log out and log back in and it doesn't change. If I restart, the problem is gone.
I did run Migration Assistant from my old QS G4.
I am running 10.4.8 with 3 Ghz of RAM. I ran AHT and the system and RAM checks out fine. Even ran the new Universal Applejack. Problem still remains. It is so intermittent it is going to be impossible to troubleshoot. When it started today, I was noticed it after I started iTunes in that the audio would break-up. Any clues?

Happening Now this is from terminal
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
294 top 8.1% 0:07.28 1 18 20 1.50M 912K 1.98M 26.9M
293 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.01 1 15 19 412K 1.11M 932K 31.1M
292 login 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 40 172K 1000K 652K 26.9M
290 Terminal 0.4% 0:01.37 5 96 163 2.12M 13.7M 10.4M 362M
282 Microsoft 0.0% 0:05.72 4 90 313 11.3M 80.2M 27.1M 477M
281 Microsoft 1.1% 0:47.22 15 223 965 50.1M 116M 98.4M 764M
266 mdimport 0.0% 0:01.09 4 66 131 2.25M 5.46M 5.74M 75.0M
258 translate 0.0% 0:00.61 4 76 98 6.03M 53.9M 19.4M 118M
256 mysqld 0.0% 0:00.39 6 55 82 3.16M 52.9M 6.58M 134M
255 Acrobat 0.8% 0:53.04 11 154 1029 65.2M 109M 97.4M 1.09G
252 Adobe LM S 0.0% 0:01.05 3 53 158 9.40M 52.6M 14.9M 160M
250 Adobe InDe 1.1% 2:11.75 10 168 2602 207M 193M 306M 2.37G
232 Safari 0.6% 3:35.58 12 262 1416 133M 57.6M 161M 600M
222 pmTool 1.9% 0:42.10 1 22 25 8.83M+ 1.65M 9.55M+ 44.5M
221 Activity M 1.5% 0:50.46 3 80 169 4.56M 12.3M 11.5M 361M
219 cupsd 0.0% 0:00.07 2 29 25 564K 1.42M 1.69M 27.9M
218 slpd 0.0% 0:00.02 6 30 31 244K 1.32M 1020K 30.2M
202 ntpd 0.0% 0:00.27 1 11 18 176K 1.06M 432K 27.1M
194 automount 0.0% 0:00.01 3 40 30 308K 1.38M 1.08M 28.7M
188 mds 0.0% 0:01.51 8 93 79 3.58M 3.33M 4.87M 43.7M
185 automount 0.0% 0:00.01 3 42 35 316K 1.39M 1.12M 29.0M
181 rpc.lockd 0.0% 0:00.00 1 10 18 100K 964K 216K 26.7M
174 AppleFileS 0.0% 0:00.15 2 39 39 3.03M 1.96M 3.34M 33.3M
167 nfsiod 0.0% 0:00.00 5 30 25 108K 864K 208K 28.6M
123 crashrepor 0.0% 0:00.00 1 39 19 128K 868K 252K 27.1M
113 lookupd 0.0% 0:02.63 2 34 40 900K 1.49M 1.66M 28.5M
108 Image Capt 0.0% 0:00.18 3 83 121 1.06M 5.05M 3.36M 344M
107 UniversalA 0.0% 0:07.97 2 70 128 1.29M 6.47M 3.92M 350M
106 TWAINBridg 0.0% 0:12.39 4 85 252 8.31M 55.7M 14.0M 459M
105 translated 0.0% 0:00.02 1 11 71 9.61M 23.8M 552K 152M
103 VersionCue 0.0% 0:01.05 3 82 227 7.78M 56.0M 13.3M 440M
102 LCCDaemon 0.0% 0:01.37 3 78 126 5.02M 5.16M 7.33M 348M
101 EPSON Scan 0.2% 0:06.73 3 84 228 7.05M 55.9M 11.6M 443M
100 iTunesHelp 0.0% 0:00.05 2 58 110 592K 5.31M 1.92M 339M
99 System Eve 0.0% 0:00.27 2 68 136 1.23M 5.12M 3.51M 344M
93 Finder 0.0% 0:05.36 4 123 274 7.62M 34.3M 21.8M 395M
91 SystemUISe 0.0% 0:01.11 5 209 230 3.12M 12.6M 7.94M 363M
90 aped 0.0% 0:00.16 1 49 27 380K 1.39M 1.20M 27.3M
89 Dock 0.0% 0:01.31 3 123 233 1.63M 21.8M 4.89M 369M
83 pbs 0.0% 0:00.17 2 55 45 760K 4.03M 2.08M 54.7M
74 loginwindo 0.0% 0:00.78 6 243 248 3.62M 13.7M 9.33M 366M
73 ATSServer 0.0% 0:05.10 2 96 337 8.55M 12.8M 13.1M 86.6M
70 coreservic 0.0% 0:00.83 3 121 166 4.68M 33.1M 16.6M 50.6M
68 WindowServ 1.8% 4:07.79 6 322 691 11.0M+ 58.4M- 61.0M 396M
50 DirectoryS 0.0% 0:00.15 4 69 45 756K 2.20M 2.66M 30.3M
49 update 0.1% 0:04.23 1 12 17 120K 864K 244K 26.6M
48 distnoted 0.0% 0:00.17 1 50 19 320K 1.19M 884K 27.0M
43 notifyd 0.0% 0:00.10 2 73 21 208K 932K 480K 27.2M
42 securityd 0.0% 0:00.16 1 122 27 544K 1.84M 1.89M 28.5M
41 memberd 0.0% 0:00.01 3 21 23 232K 928K 640K 27.7M
40 diskarbitr 0.0% 0:00.16 1 148 21 488K 1.29M 1.16M 27.1M
39 coreaudiod 0.0% 0:00.19 1 134 77 1.49M 2.30M 3.00M 33.0M
37 configd 0.0% 0:02.41 3 170 80 780K 2.45M 2.41M 29.4M
35 syslogd 0.0% 0:00.05 1 14 19 160K 916K 428K 26.6M
34 netinfod 0.0% 0:00.24 1 14 22 200K 984K 1.12M 26.9M
33 mDNSRespon 0.0% 0:00.10 3 33 25 332K 1.43M 1.10M 27.9M
32 KernelEven 0.0% 0:00.01 2 21 21 244K 900K 636K 27.2M
28 kextd 0.0% 0:00.95 2 29 23 752K 1.27M 1.15M 27.6M
24 dynamic_pa 0.0% 0:00.00 1 12 19 116K 888K 192K 26.6M
1 launchd 0.0% 0:00.17 3 347 22 268K 920K 544K 27.7M

Slowness and excessive CPU usage under 10.9.1

Hi,
I installed Mavericks on my MacBook soon after it came out and I generally like it. However, it has made my mid-2010 model MacBook quite slow, but, oddly, only in certain situations, for example opening and quiting applications and switching between windows. The Finder has become especially slow. I'm constantly restarting and repairing disk permissions in a vain effort to make my laptop work like it used to, but it still seems almost like the computer is having to use too much virtual memory. However, activity monitor reports low 'memory pressure' (whatever that means) and generally 0 bytes or a low level of swap used. In addition, it seems to be taking longer to start up, especially after it has got past the grey apple screen and loaded up the desktop (I have to wait forever for the dock and desktop icons to appear). It has 8GB RAM and an SSD, so it shouldn't really be slow...
Activity Monitor does report very high levels of CPU utilization (often in excess of 100%). Is it just that the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor is a little weedy for 10.9 or is this irregular behaviour? Any ideas on what i could try to speed this thing up?
Thanks in advance for any help,
LSRW

Hi Dibenkorn,
Thanks for your help. The SMART status is verified and the disk verification finished with a green 'okay' message. I have run etrecheck and the results are below. I will now attempt to reset SMC.
Hardware Information:
          MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
          MacBook - model: MacBook7,1
          1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 3 days 21:41:48
Disk Information:
          V4-CT256V4SSD2 disk0 : (256.06 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 255.2 GB (48.07 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information:
          Verbatim Desktop USB Drive 500.11 GB
                    EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    External HD (disk2s2) <not mounted>: 499.76 GB
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.quark.quarkupdate.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
          [System] com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.promethean.activhardwareservice.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.promethean.activmgr.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.promethean.flashextension.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.quark.quarkupdate.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
          uHD-Agent
          iTunesHelper
          Luke
          Dropbox
          Google Drive
Internet Plug-ins:
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Outdated! Update
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Safari Extensions:
          Chat Undetected: Version: 1.64
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
          BlueStacks Install Detector: Version: Unknown
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
          Perian 3rd-Party support link
          Quark Update Preferences 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
          QuarkUpdate:          Version: 1.1.0.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Quark/AutoUpdate/QuarkUpdate.app
          DockPlistEdit:          Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Parallels/Uninstaller/Parallels Hypervisor/DockPlistEdit.app
          Audacity:          Version: 2.0.1.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app
          QXP Help:          Version: 10.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/QuarkXPress 10/Help/QXP Help.app
          iSkysoft Helper Compact:          Version: 2.2.6.4 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Helper/iSkysoft Helper Compact.app
          Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.3 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
          Neverwinter Nights 2:          Version: 1.23.1765 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
               5%          WindowServer
               1%          EtreCheck
               0%          prl_disp_service
               0%          com.apple.WebKit.Networking
               0%          aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
          369 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          287 MB          Finder
          164 MB          mds_stores
          139 MB          softwareupdated
          131 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
          2.31 GB          Free RAM
          3.41 GB          Active RAM
          1.15 GB          Inactive RAM
          897 MB          Wired RAM
          1.72 GB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

Use of titles causes excessive CPU usage

I have been working on a project in PP CC (all latest updates installed) for the past week. I have had no problems regardless of the increase in size of the project over time. Yesterday I began adding a few titles. After I added the titles the application slowed down considerably. It pushed one of the CPU cores to near 100% and never came down. I restarted the application twice and the same thing happened. It was always fine until I began working with titles. Today, I had been working for about 3 hours and the same thing happened though I had done nothing with titling.

Thanks, Ann. I did try that as well as loading up a different project without titles and they both worked fine. I did discover more about the problem this morning. It only seems to happen when I have the play head over a piece of crawling text on the timeline. After a period of time at least one CPU core hits 100%, sometimes two, and everything slows down. If I move the play head off to a position on the timeline without the text, the problem goes away after a few seconds. I am able to repeat this though the amount of time it takes to occur varies from a few minutes to half an hour. So, it seems that the work-around for the problem is to not leave the play head sitting over an instance of crawling text for any length of time.

Garageband 09 excessive CPU usage

Seemingly since Snow Leopard; or perhaps the last 10.6.2 update; I can't open garageband; and when it does open; it spikes super high in CPU from 60 to 100 ;
I tried a PRAM reset; no luck yet. Whats up with this? Any others have this prob?
Message was edited by: raspberryaddiction

yes, it might be a conflict, let's hope not because that's something you'll need to dig to find. but we do have a generic OddBall probs fix:
first two things to try for “oddball” probs:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#oddballprobs
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Excessive CPU usage?

Safari 6 under 10.8 is using the CPU even when it is in the swapped out. Activity monitor shows 100% CPU for Safari. Then it hangs when trying to quit. I have to Force Quit. Anybody else experience this or know what is going on?

Turning Java off seems to cure the problem. Javascript seems to be okay.

Xorg - Excessive CPU usage causes massive slowdown.

Hello there forums.
Ever since the installation of Arch I've had the strange problem of having my Xorg process randomly (but quite frequently) spike up to 100% or somewhere within those reaches. This renders the computer totally unusable (think alsa-mixer lagging like crazy) for an average of two seconds, repeating a couple of times over the next minutes, whereafter it generally gives me a break.
Here follows my /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+colemak"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Mouse0"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "auto"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.12"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.24"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
# Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0 # Safe for LCDs.
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0 # Safe for LCDs and most CRTs.
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
Option "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
Option "UseEvents" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Additionally I don't believe that my desktop uses the grapd-card at all (even though I've got RenderAccel) since algorithmic screensavers like the coral reef that comes with xscreensaver lags when it starts to fill up the entire screen.
If any further info is needed just ask.
Computer specs:
64-bit system.
2.26GHz P8400
4 Gigs RAM
GeForce 9700m GT

Here's my Xorg.0.log:
X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux lawliet 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 8 23:24:22 CET 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 17 December 2008 10:46:49PM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 20 12:17:14 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) | |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "SynapticsTouchpad"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unsca
led,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1.
(**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
(==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
Using the default mouse configuration.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) Loader magic: 0x7b54e0
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 4.1
X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
X.Org Server Extension : 1.1
X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 7
(--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x064a) rev 161, Mem @ 0xd2000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456
, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00006000/128
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b]
(II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "freetype" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dri" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module record
(II) UnloadModule: "record"
(EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 177.82 Tue Nov 4 17:15:47 PST 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "xtrap"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libxtrap.so
(II) Module xtrap: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DEC-XTRAP
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 0.99.2
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.1
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.1
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 177.82 Tue Nov 4 16:56:15 PST 2008
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) Loading sub module "wfb"
(II) LoadModule: "wfb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libwfb.so
(II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b]
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "UseEvents" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 9700M GT (G96) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.94.3c.00.06
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 9700M GT at PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x800"; removing.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1920x1080"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1680x1050"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1080
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (131, 119); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0): option
(==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b]
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Unable to connect to the ACPI daemon; the ACPI daemon may not
(II) NVIDIA(0): be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration option
(II) NVIDIA(0): may not be set correctly. When the ACPI daemon is
(II) NVIDIA(0): available, the NVIDIA X driver can use it to receive ACPI
(II) NVIDIA(0): events. For details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
(II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
(II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
(II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
(II) NVIDIA(0): enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(II) Loading extension XINERAMA
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "AccelMethod" is not used
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.99.2
(--) SynapticsTouchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(II) SynapticsTouchpad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472
(II) SynapticsTouchpad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448
(II) SynapticsTouchpad: pressure range 0 - 255
(II) SynapticsTouchpad: finger width range 0 - 0
(II) SynapticsTouchpad: buttons: left right middle double triple
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "False"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "5300"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "1700"
(**) Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
(**) Option "FingerLow" "25"
(**) Option "FingerHigh" "30"
(**) Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
(**) Option "VertEdgeScroll" "True"
(**) Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "True"
(**) Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "True"
(--) SynapticsTouchpad touchpad found
(**) Option "AlwaysCore" "True"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) SynapticsTouchpad: always reports core events
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+colemak"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbSymbols: "pc(pc105)+colemak"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
(II) <default pointer>: Setting Device option to "/dev/input/mice"
(--) <default pointer>: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(==) <default pointer>: Protocol: "Auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) <default pointer>: always reports core events
(==) <default pointer>: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) <default pointer>: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) <default pointer>: Buttons: 9
(**) <default pointer>: Sensitivity: 1
(II) evaluating device (SynapticsTouchpad)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynapticsTouchpad" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (<default pointer>)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "<default pointer>" (type: MOUSE)
(--) SynapticsTouchpad touchpad found
(II) <default pointer>: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) <default pointer>: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
AUDIT: Sat Dec 20 12:18:01 2008: 4501 Xorg: client 4 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=4611 )
AUDIT: Sat Dec 20 12:18:18 2008: 4501 Xorg: client 4 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=4639 )
AUDIT: Sat Dec 20 12:18:18 2008: 4501 Xorg: client 4 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=4640 )
AUDIT: Sat Dec 20 12:18:18 2008: 4501 Xorg: client 4 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=4641 )
The main problems I see is that my ACPI doesn't seem to kick in and that my synaptics touchpad doesn't work properly (but that's a problem for a different thread).

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