Xorg and High CPU Usage

[untak]

Using Latest version of Xorg
Using Xfce (Tried others Fluxbox, KDE, Gnome)
Using Kernel 2.6.8-2
Drivers for video card = "via"

I have a Asus board with VIA chipset, the video card is a S3 UniChrome

Problem: When ever I do the slightest thing in a GUI Xorg usage goes up to 99% ...

Examples (I right click on the background usage goes up to about 30%)
Examples (I move Eterm, Xterm or Kconsole across the screen from one side to the other ..Usage goes up to 100%)
Examples (I scroll a website up and down in firefox ..Usage goes up to 100%)

Any help with this would be great thanks!

oh btw I'm on debian

[chopin1810]

well, how fast is you cpu?

[untak]

AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 512 Ram

[chopin1810]

Well then there's clearly something wrong
I'll try to come up with an answer

[untak]

I tried another distro (FeatherLinux) basically same results only no Xorg only the apps and XVesa

[jaboua]

Try using the VESA xorg drivers instead, there might be a problem with the via drivers.

[untak]

hmm I tried that but then I couldn't load X, I also tried Generic Vesa drivers and a few other options, I'm kinda in a bind I tried using Freebsie the FreeBSD Live CD, but after I loaded it the GUI never came up the splash screen just sat there then it asked for the shell or something ..

[jaboua]

The shell thingie asked if you would like "tcsh" or a GUI enviroment.

[johnny82]

Hi all. I have the same problem on all distro i have tested.

Simply scrolling a web page or move a window under X takes cpu under high load.

I have a AMD Barton 2600, 512 MB Ram, Abit mobo with NForce chipset, a NVidia GeForce 6200..

How resolve this problem?