X eats up my CPU

[David Timms]

Christoph Höger wrote:
> On all ati-specific drivers (radeon, radeonhd, fglrx) blitting
> operations (moving windows, selecting multiple icons on the gnome
> desktop, surfing websites with flash like www.spiegel.de) turn X to take
> up to 100% of CPU usage.
> (attached my xorg.conf)

The Xorg log at /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives {those who know} a much better 
indication of what is going on.