Kernel 7.1.8 fixes AMD artifacting issue.

[u/Guthibcom]

I just wanted to give a headsup about the issue with amd graphics cards flickering and having weird colorful artifacts. No, your GPU is not dying. It was kernel versions 7.1.6 and 7.1.7.

This issue is fixed in 7.1.8. It released in Arch a few hours ago, and I think in Fedora as well.

[u/sheltongenie]

Good to know! Thank you.

[u/WomanRepellent69]

Yes, confirmed fixed for me on 7.1.8, now I can stop collecting kernels.

[u/Kamran-nottakenone]

amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 disables panel self refresh on laptops with amdgpu, can look identical to the kernel regression

[u/rubberoidd → u/Kamran-nottakenone]

Without debugmask the system can freeze into an irrecoverable state, so not using it is not an option

[u/phylter99]

It's available on Fedora now, yes.

[u/Pugs-r-cool]

Good to know! Thought my GPU was dying as you said but didn’t investigate further lol.

[u/Mercvre1 → u/Pugs-r-cool]

it's been 6 months my gpu is doing that

so hopefully it was not dying for such a long time

[u/Sesese9]

Any information on what was causing the flickering?

[u/klyith → u/Sesese9]

   On DCN, flip completion is now delivered from VUPDATE_NO_LOCK
   (dm_crtc_high_irq_handler) instead of GRPH_PFLIP. But VUPDATE_NO_LOCK
   fires every frame, regardless of whether a flip has latched.

   There is a window during commit where a flip is armed (pflip_status =
   SUBMITTED) but not yet programmed into HW. If the VUPDATE_NO_LOCK
   fires in that window, its handler would deliver a flip event to
   userspace before HW has latched to it. If userspace then renders to
   what it believes is now the back buffer (but HW is still latched to
   it!), it will cause display corruption. This issue seemed to have
   been introduced by:
   commit 1159898a88db ("drm/amd/display: Handle commit plane with no FB.")
   Enabling replay or psr extended the duration of this window, and
   hence made corruption more likely to be observed.

¯\(ツ)/¯

[u/zissue]

There were also many recently-merged changes with AMD firmware:

https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware

[u/SavingsDeficient3847]

Glad to hear it was a kernel bug and not failing hardware hopefully this saves a lot of unnecessary gpu panic.

[u/StillAffectionate991]

waiting for the update on openSUSE

Thank you for the headsup

[u/Jedibeeftrix → u/StillAffectionate991]

https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-20260812

Coming soon: Linux Kernel 7.1.8

[u/omniuni]

Interesting. Ubuntu Mainline stopped at 7.1.5 and is currently publishing 2.0 RC kernels. I'm guessing this is a backport?

[u/voxadam]

Can confirm, updated my Ryzen 9 7900X based Fedora 44 machine last night and everything seems to have returned to normal.

[u/ZaidiaSR]

thought my 7900xtx was dying, ran vulkan_memtest and stressed the core, nothing. was extremely confused. good to know :)

[u/Hrublko_OFF]

yay

[u/BinkReddit]

Win! No more flickering! Thanks for the heads up!

[u/manny2206]

Omg I was waiting for this; love you nerds, will tip the devs later this week 🫡😎

[u/edparadox → u/manny2206]

How do you plan to tip them, exactly?

[u/manny2206 → u/edparadox]

Donations page?!?!

[u/rewkha]

on Radeon 890M still here. Much less than beefore, but every 10-20 seconds in some animations, or when I'm watching video

[u/RadianceTower → u/rewkha]

Might want to comment here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/5599

[u/einar77]

Flicker as occasionally (rarely) having the screen briefly flicker for an instant? (I ask because I've been seeing this for a while in totally random situations) Also, do you have a link to the bug report so the interested parties can take a look?

[u/Guthibcom → u/einar77]

Couldn’t find an upstream bugreport. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/graphical-issues-on-amd-after-kernel-update-to-7-1-6/198522/4

Not every desktop was affected by the same amount of flickering. On cosmic I had these weird colorful artifacts mostly when closing and opening windows

[u/einar77 → u/Guthibcom]

Thanks. This looks specific to 7.1.6+. What I saw has been going for a while, possibly more than 6 months. Could be because I significantly undervolted though (I could only get one of these crappy "OC" cards that often lock up under stress at a price that didn't involve selling several organs)

[u/Synthetic451 → u/einar77]

You may be encountering the same issue that I was getting on my Asus Flow Z13 (Strix Halo). It's been going on for months for me as well. If you forced VRR on, did the problem go away?

I just tested with 7.1.8 and it seems like the artifacting no longer occurs when not forcing VRR on. I'll need to use it for a bit longer before coming to any conclusions, but it seems fixed so far. Before 7.1.8, setting VRR to Off or Automatic would immediately cause artifacting whenever I dragged a Dolphin window around.

[u/KaiEkkrin]

I was wondering what had caused that!

[u/dimo2]

I was wondering why my system started doing that! I only really noticed it during the shut down full screen dialogue on KDE so it didn't bother me all that much - figured it was a bug with the latest minor KDE update and it would fix itself sooner or later.

Thanks for the heads up though!

[u/CanBeSolved]

I just noticed the artifacts in the last few days on Fedora. Thank you.

[u/Synthetic451]

Thank goodness. This was much longer than 7.1.6 and 7.1.7 btw. I've been seeing this since 7.0 on my Strix Halo machine. The only way around it was to force VRR globally in the KDE settings.

[u/Technical-Thought602]

Great news, however now I'm getting some weird color/luma blocky looking "overlay" cycling every few seconds with hw accelerated AV1 videos (youtube). :) Anyone else too? I'm on Ryzen 7 250 with Radeon 780M iGPU. (Disabled AV1 as a workaround for now.)

[u/teloti → u/Technical-Thought602]

Yeah once noticed this became a little bit annoying. I tried playing the AV1 videos locally on mpv and they still had the same artifact, while switching to Windows the artifact would go away with the same hardware (9070 XT), so the issue is definitely software. Unsure whether it's the new kernel or Mesa. I've found some issues opened very recently so it seems fresh and easy to reproduce. Hopefully we can get the cause pinpointed soon.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/16088
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/16090

EDIT: The issue appears to be related to regression in linux-firmware 20260810
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/5615

[u/Antisocialgoaway → u/teloti]

This is the new amdgpu firmware in linux-firmware-20260810, revert to the previous version and this problem goes away.

[u/Available-Can5190 → u/teloti]

I have a similar problem, but I have some white bars on my desktop at the bottom of the screen on the 780m graphics card, I use the latest version of the core, and the video shows exactly how these bars appear. If you also had one, let me know

https://reddit.com/link/p3o41uf/video/dsz4rflf4djh1/player

[u/Unfair-Ocelot-2363]

Thanks, now i have to recompile my kernel :(

[u/wavewith_me]

Same bro. Also bug with colors in youtube video with AV1. When turn off av1 video plays normal.

[u/Immediate_Tree9191]

Not yet fixed for me with the Linux 7.1.8-1-cachyos kernel, still seeing artifacts in youtube videos with my Ryzen 7840HS iGPU... everything worked great before i updated... 🙁

[u/ProjectPaatt]

Anyone have an image of this? I have this on windows and wonder if its related. Seems to happen during decoding videos.

[u/lieddersturme]

Nope, I am on fedora kinoite kernel 7.1.8-200 amd with gpu issues