Another data point - this isn't Gnome related. When running icewm it's not quite as bad since there aren't as many things using the X server, but just running 'top' in a terminal takes 20-30% of CPU. As I said before, it seems as if X is not using any acceleration on radeon cards.
Another data point - this isn't Gnome related. When running icewm it's not quite as bad since there aren't as many things using the X server, but just running 'top' in a terminal takes 20-30% of CPU. As I said before, it seems as if X is not using any acceleration on radeon cards.