Reinstalling Arch using pacman pinned ARM with 3.4.7-1 seems to be working right now. I guess its 3.5x that breaks stuff.
// stable for me right now
3.7.4.1-ARCH
ati-dri/mesa 8.0.4-2
xf86-video-ati 1:6.14.6-1
xorg-server 1.12.3-1
xorg-server-common 1.12.3-1
As an aside has anyone got multitouch working with this laptop? lsinput shows the device:
/dev/input/event2
bustype : BUS_USB
vendor : 0x1b96
product : 0x1
version : 272
name : "N-Trig MultiTouch"
phys : "usb-0000:00:13.1-2/input1"
uniq : ""
bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS EV_MSC
And evtest gives me a bunch of output:
sudo evtest /dev/input/event2
But no apps I've tried that use multitouch actually work. I don't think the right x events are being generated.
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About the screen flickering: While the laptop is powered (no matter wether the screen is on or off) it seems like the screen is reset (flickers) for a short moment occasionally - do you guys have this behaviour too?
The upgrade didn't change any of the listed packages (ignoring linux)
I ran into a similar problem with the touch screen as well.
It might be that the touch screen isn't registering when your finger 'releases'... you can check what's going on with
xinput list to get the N trig device name
xinput --query-state "N-trig DeviceName"
Besides that I experience other strange behavior:
1. After using finger to touch the screen, I can't right click on taskbar in xfce and mouse pointer seems to be pressed in *some* applications (mostly Java ones)
2. After suspending the system to RAM and waking it up again, the screen flickers during HDD access - the heavier the usage, the worser the filcker. o_O
This gets more interesting the more I use it
@canurabus: #23215 may be the case, I have:
xf86-video-ati 6.14.6-1
xorg-server 1.12.4-1
xorg-server-common 1.12.4-1
xorg-server-utils 7.6-3
XT -- since the problem seems to have disappeared for you, could you post your package versions for:
xf86-video-ati,
xorg-server,
mesa,
ati-dri
I want to see if we're running the same package versions. I wonder if this problem has anything to do with https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23215.
]]>[ 116.608] (EE) AIGLX error: r300 does not export required DRI extension
[ 116.608] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
That's all i have been able to reproduce so far, so this is gonna be my starting point.
]]>Another issue is that after upgrading the firmware for touchscreen (via Windows) I can't use the touchscreen the same way as before the upgrade. Touching the screen with my finger has a strange effect of disabling right mouse button in XFCE's system tray (in all other apps RMB works OK) plus strange mouse behavior in other applications like constant text selecting in PyCharm. o_O Now I can't rely on autodetection anymore.
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Add adeon.modeset=0 as a kernel option.
I'll have to search a bit more for what caused this problem, but at least im able to use my notebook again.
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