Comment 9 for bug 1750393

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Jamie C. (coolmott) wrote : Re: Blank screen with only mouse pointer after mesa driver update; display does not switch to tty7 upon lightdm start; Xorg.0.log quickly grows

This issue has a workaround:

Download 7.9 radeon driver Ubuntu package (xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04_7.9.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1_amd64.deb) from:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04/1:7.9.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

Execute the following on the downloaded .deb file:

> sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04_7.9.0-0ubuntu1_16.04.1_amd64.deb

> sudo apt-get -f install

> sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04

This downgrades the radeon driver package to version 7.9, fixes dependencies, and holds the driver pkg from further updates.

Upon rebooted, issue is resolved.

A bug has been reported to Freedesktop at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105217