Comment 101 for bug 969860

Either the upstream bug was re-introduced or never really fixed because I'm running the amd-catalyst-13.8 beta2 version (fglrx 13.2000). As soon as the screen shuts off, the CPU usages spikes to 100%. Neither of the workarounds work for me. I've been forced to just turn off X at night.

I've noticed the problem as well if I run xbmc as a standalone. As soon as the screen is shut off, the xbmc.bin process jumps to 100% cpu. The same is true when trying with fvwm2 or xfce4 as well.

can we get upstream to re-open the bug?