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You can blame ATI for the really @$&*(@#$& driver quality.
No this is a problem with Xorg. Or, to be more precise the lack of DRI2. Intel has the same problem. The thing is nvidia bypassed some features in xorg and wrote their own propreitary hardware acceleration in their linux drivers.
DRI2 was supposed to be included in xserver 1.5 (wich is in intrepid), but there was a change of plans unfortunately, so DRI2 will be included in xserver 1.6 (to be released pretty soon).
DISCLAIMER - i use an nvidia card, and it works very well. But this doesn't change the fact that ATI's drivers would probably perform identically if it hadn't been for that recent DRI2 mishap.
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