/sbin/v86d is using 100% CPU [SOLVED]

[dtoebe]

I am running LMDE Cinnamon on a MacBook Pro. I noticed my fan on over a long period of time so I installed htop and looked into it.

It seems that /sbin/v86d is running at 100% of CPU.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot that?

[dtoebe]

So upon some more research I found this post. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 9&t=129430

Reading into the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/uvesafb) and gentoo wiki (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Uvesafb)

I realized it might have been an unnecessary module running. so I removed it and reboot. So far everything is fine. I will mark this as solved, but if anyone has comments or recommendations on this please post. I will also post if I run into any issues.

[Monsta]

Interesting. I experienced the same when I've been testing the new LMDE ISOs in Virtualbox with EFI enabled. This daemon was eating 100% CPU both in live mode (making the installation process slow) and in the installed system.

[Blank Reg]

I realized it might have been an unnecessary module running. so I removed it and reboot. So far everything is fine.

Actually uvesafb complains during boot if you remove v86d, but I couldn't find any .conf file in modprobe.d to comment it out...