Re: slackware - flashing screen on terminal

> Every time I start gkrellmd my terminal screen will flash about once a
> second, until I kill the process.
> 
> and "nvidia-smi"
> then uses up to 60% CPU and then stops

Is it related to sensors on the video card?  What happens if you use
the "sensors" command from lm-sensors or some other way of retrieving
the card's temperature?  Does the same thing happen?

Either way looks like a bug in the nVidia driver - probably the only
solution is to roll back until they release a new version with a fix.
You can also report the bug to nVidia I think.

Cheers,
Adam.