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.