Changing screen brightness, variety changing wallpapers, or anything graphical within KDE can sometimes lead to the screen freezing and forcing me to restart the laptop. I've also noticed excessive thrashing when using hashcat and davinci resolve, with hashcat now causing the GPU to almost seperate itself from the system; it no longer will provide usage data, temp data, or fan data after running hashcat. Attatched is a log from the last restart where I had issues with hashcat, and a screen freeze after changing brightness. My specs are:
Asus TUF FA617NT (7700HS, 7700S GPU, 16GB RAM (4GB Swap File), 512GB SSD)
amd-opencl drivers (for ROCM and Davinci compatibility)
Latest Asus G14 kernel for arch
Accompanying ROG apps, with custom fan curves
#Odd random GPU related issues
nocturne vine
@nova iron thread made
I do realize I likely need more RAM and a larger SSD for what im demanding from the system, however some of these graphical issues cannot possibly be related
nova iron
Nov 09 00:18:06 zortuf kwin_wayland[1197]: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Nov 09 00:18:06 zortuf kwin_wayland[1197]: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Nov 09 00:18:06 zortuf kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:94:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out
Nov 09 00:18:06 zortuf kwin_wayland[1197]: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'```what is the output of journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot -1
nocturne vine
I noticed that a lot on a quick look through, I find it interesting that its declaring the pageflip (usually performed between CPU, memory, and secondary storage) is an issue caused by a GPU driver but maybe im topping out the vram too fast? idk
nocturne vine
what is the output of `journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot -1`
1 sec
nova iron
are you using a second display?
nocturne vine
Yes, I have a thunderbolt based display connected via type c though the cable is a bit tricky
these issues do still happen without the presence of a second screen however
though much less frequently
nova iron
it looks to be an issue on other de too
some people are saying it happens on gnome and hyprland
nocturne vine
seems to be an AMD side issue
sadly the only fix is to just turbofuck my battery life... yay...
gonna do some more research and pray its been resolved
nova iron
As of Mesa 25.2.6-2 and kernel 6.17.7-ba01.fc43.x86_64 I no longer experience crashing```Issue is still open sadly
nova iron
are you on the latest linux-firmware-amdgpu
nocturne vine
are you on the latest linux-firmware-amdgpu
I can check but very likely yes, i do update daily typically
nocturne vine
are you on the latest linux-firmware-amdgpu
whats the latest version?
nvm, its up to date
1 core/linux-firmware-amdgpu 20251021-1 (25.2 MiB 26.0 MiB) (Installed)
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for AMD Radeon GPUs
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
Sync Dependency (1): linux-firmware-amdgpu-20251021-1
[sudo] password for dwp:
warning: linux-firmware-amdgpu-20251021-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) linux-firmware-amdgpu-20251021-1
Total Installed Size: 25.97 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
it says that it's up to date
nocturne vine
ill reinstall it for giggles
nova iron
do you also have mesa installed?
nocturne vine
ill check
do you have the full pkg name?
nvm im dumb
Mesa OpenGL utility library
6 extra/vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.2.6-1 (431.7 KiB 2.0 MiB)
Mesa's Vulkan layers
5 extra/mesa-utils 9.0.0-7 (151.6 KiB 781.3 KiB) (Installed)
Essential Mesa utilities
4 extra/mesa-docs 1:25.2.6-1 (2.9 MiB 40.1 MiB)
Mesa's documentation
3 extra/mesa-demos 9.0.0-7 (2.8 MiB 23.5 MiB)
Mesa demos
2 extra/mesa-amber 21.3.9-6 (6.8 MiB 40.5 MiB)
classic OpenGL (non-Gallium3D) drivers
1 extra/mesa 1:25.2.6-1 (11.2 MiB 44.4 MiB) (Installed)
Open-source OpenGL drivers
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
Sync Dependency (1): mesa-1:25.2.6-1
warning: mesa-1:25.2.6-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) mesa-1:25.2.6-1
Total Installed Size: 44.44 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
valid, im thinking its just the issue that i had posted above thats still open
nova iron
nocturne vine
seems to be an issue with page flipping from video memory and secondary storage
nova iron
here's where i'm checking
nocturne vine
very low level
nocturne vine
Issue is still open sadly
I believe this is the issue I had mentioned, matches my symptoms to a tee
nova iron
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues?sort=created_date&state=opened&s...
if you keep your eyes on the closed issues you should be able to find a solution eventually (when they fix it)
nocturne vine
theres a kernel arg I can use for now to band aid the issue, but ill make a gitlab acc and follow that thread
"amd drivers are fine in the big 25 I swear!!!" 💔
jk jk
nova iron
wait until you see the state of open source nvidia drivers haha
nocturne vine
i shudder to even imagine
nova iron
but yeah, sorry i couldn't be of more help
nocturne vine
nah its chill man
nova iron
hopefully you'll figure it out soon 🙂
nocturne vine
this issue is like, amd hardware engineer problem not helpful casual arch user on discord problem lmao
tysm
wow that made it unhappy
nocturne vine
no more pageflip errors (yay!) however it now made a bunch of fun colors on the 2nd monitor where i had hashcat open in terminal
im gonna unplug it and run it again for giggles
nova iron
oh, I think the pageflip errors only show up right before it crashes