On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:02:38 Rich Freeman wrote: > I haven't really had time to investigate but I've had an issue like > this with my radeon card (using KMS) for a few weeks now. I'm on the > 4.4 upstream kernel. > > sddm and X11 in general work just fine, but if I try to switch to > another virtual console the mouse cursor disappears but the X11 > display otherwise remains in place. > > I suspect some kind of regression for radeon ended up in the stable > queue.
That sounds likely, yes. > I'll have to take a closer look at my kernel config to see if perhaps it > is now using a newer driver, but that seems unlikely as usually there > aren't configuration changes in the middle of a stable series (and I've > been on 4.4 for months now). Yes, so've I. It was on switching to 4.9.0 that the problem appeared. Actually, 4.8.14 appeared here on the same day as 4.9.0, which seemed just a little unusual. -- Regards Peter
