I was fighting with those excessive CPU usage over the last days, too.
It occurred after upgrading to Lucid, and as most of the subscribers, I
suspected g-m-s. However, I started, by incidence, a session of another
user, which was almost virgin and did not show this high CPU usage. So I
tried to fi
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 444139 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444139
Same problem here to, with Radeon 9200. Black desktop and Compiz
problems with 1280x1024 resolution, desktop background and Compiz
working well with 1152x864
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[karmic] Desktop blacked out when Compiz is en