I eventually decided that the display device on the laptop where I was having this problem was probably faulty. I replaced that laptop with a very similar one (the principle difference being an ATI x1400 instead of an x1300), and I haven't had this problem since. For what that's worth.
-- Xorg 100% CPU usage (radeon, maybe compositing-related) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
