[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#776309: fglrx-driver: Hung PC with black screen and solid white cursor in upper left corner

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-01-22 14:50, James Wagner wrote:
>> The bug is still around now in Sid after the upgrade to kernel
>> 4.3.0.1-amd64
> 
> Hopping on to confirm. Catalyst 15.9 and Linux 4.3.0 caused Xorg to have
> a canary. Falling back to radeon worked just fine. I haven't tried the
> AMD installer yet, but I'm hoping it's actually fixed in the latest
> upstream version. fglrx-driver should probably be marked as broken until
> this is fixed upstream, so affected users can hold off.

Please try again with the 15.12 driver that is now available in
unstable, testing, and jessie-backports.

Thanks.

Andreas