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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, would installing the proprietary fglrx drivers provide a
WORKAROUND as outlined in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD ?

** Tags added: wily

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Title:
  Cursor flickers & disappears.

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  dmesg | egrep 'drm|radeon'

  gives  --- *ERROR* conflict detected with stolen region

  sudo update-pciids #optional command, requires internet
  lspci -nn | grep VGA

  gives -- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro
  Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper PRO [Radeon HD 5750] [1002:68be]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-39.53~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt11
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-39-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Jun 11 18:12:30 2015
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:d000]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper PRO [Radeon HD 5750] [1002:68be] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:2986]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-10 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68AP-D3
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-39-generic root=UUID=819060e8-45dd-405b-b40d-85174dd3cb96 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 03/21/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F8
  dmi.board.name: Z68AP-D3
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF8:bd03/21/2012:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnZ68AP-D3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ68AP-D3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Z68AP-D3
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
  xserver.bootTime: Thu Jun 11 14:07:52 2015
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.devices:
   input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 6
   input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 7
   input        Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0 KEYBOARD, id 8
   input        Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0 KEYBOARD, id 9
   input        Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0 KEYBOARD, id 10
  xserver.errors:
   
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2~trusty2
  xserver.video_driver: radeon

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