[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#816755: fglrx-atieventsd: disappearing mouse

[Richard Jasmin]

Package: fglrx-atieventsd
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Not sure how to fix this one, Ive only encountered it with the pre-packaged
driver for Jessie.

Once you get beyond the broker then broke state that either downgrading Xorg in
Stretch or installing fglrx in Jessie you get to this point.

[fix at this stage: aticonfig --initial again, you borked something in your
config. --or at least I did, but I cant see how.]

What happens is this:
The mouse is here...and then it isnt. This seems the most relevant package.
When the mouse goes, it runs away and hides(disappear, literally..the mouse OFF
feature) and wont come back. Clicking will not help you. The keyboard then
begins to act funny and semi-non responsive. And by funny, its not guaranteed
to alt-tab or otherwise navigate.

No, your wireless have not failed you. Your batteries are FINE.

But the system knows youre there. You can switch to a vterm and kill off X. For
now, until the mouse decides to hide again. Killing X will only bring back the
mouse for the login screen. Until it hides again. Rebooting will not help much
either.

Whack CTRL-ALT-DEL and away we go....for now. Until you login to X again...then
the mouse wants to hide.

Also:
text resolution is higher on open driver then fglrx in the vterm for some
reason....

I will see further if I can replicate this issue. The driver I have is BETA
level but has been patched to run up to X 1.17 and kernel 4.3x. Original source
of the driver pre-patch was for fedora 22 at kernel v 4.0.4. The kernel header
sources were not available to build for a newer kernel for some reason. The
installer will refuse beyond X 1.17. Might be able to fudge the driver to work
for stretch.(and hopefully fedora 23)

The second you purge fglrx, the disappearing mouse issue goes away.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)