Followed the advice of #21 and disabled vsync in ccsm. It's already off in ccc.
This helped against the spin, and I experience no noticable tearing. The other workarounds didn't help. Running on AMD E-450, Ubuntu 12.04, Unity, fglrx-updates 8.860 (12.4) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969860 Title: fglrx uses 100% CPU when screen turns off (spinning in glXWaitVideoSyncSGI or glXSwapBuffers) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/969860/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs