Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

[Mick]

On Friday 23 Sep 2016 10:36:23 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, September 23, 2016 09:13:00 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with
> > Xinerama
> > after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5):
> >
> > On Friday 16 Sep 2016 11:18:18 I wrote:
> >
> > --->8
> >
> > > I upgraded yesterday from 5.7.4 to 5.7.5. I hoped the problem I have had
> > > been fixed, but no. If I switch desktops too many times, or too often or
> > > something, the desktop becomes unusable until I reboot (I haven't tried
> > > just restarting xdm). It flickers rapidly, bits of one desktop are shown
> > > in the middle of another or on a blank background, and it's hard to see
> > > just which is the currently active desktop.
> > >
> > > This may be a bad interaction with the xorg-driver for my AMD GPU, which
> > > has only been on the market for about a year. Though
> > > sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode hasn't changed since June.
> >
> > I found from Xorg.0.log that X11 wasn't finding an evdev module, even
> > though I had INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in make.conf. So I added USE=evdev to
> > dev- qt/qtgui* and that created the module, even though kensington@gentoo
> > said it had nothing to do with it.
>
> I have the following:
> $ grep INPUT /etc/portage/make.conf
> INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick"

Do you need "keyboard mouse joystick" if you have evdev set?

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Regards,
Mick