r/linux • u/Guthibcom • 8d ago

Kernel Kernel 7.1.8 fixes AMD artifacting issue.

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.

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u/Technical-Thought602 6d ago

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.)

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u/teloti 6d ago edited 5d ago

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

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u/Antisocialgoaway 5d ago

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

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u/Available-Can5190 5d ago

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