AMD gpu bug in kernel 7.1.6 almost make me has a heart attack

2026-08-10 10:55 UTC

in some wm in my case it’s Niri during window maximize/minimize or playing videos it cause artifacts that looks like my gpu is dying and that scared the shit out of me, downgrade back to kernel 7.1.5 resolve all the issues. sorry for bad English

Replies (6)

@ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2026-08-10 11:01

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/15

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@WereCat@lemmy.world 2026-08-10 11:11

I’ve noticed those few times when watching YT on my Fedora workstation 7.1.7 kernel. Gaming no issues.

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@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2026-08-10 11:46

I’m having this issue too, I was worried my monitor/GPU/DP cable was on the fritz or something.

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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-08-10 11:50

Ah! I’ve seen a few times some artifacts with my RX 7600 on KDE too, but not on max/min, but randomly. I couldn’t reproduce it, so it is really hard to talk about such subject. As it just recently started (I’m on 7.1.6), I guess this is the same issue. Wondered if this is an issue with KDE or Krohnkite extension or my GPU dying. So glad it’s “just” a bug in the Kernel. This is just a visual issue right? It doesn’t hurt I hope.

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@urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 2026-08-10 12:46

7.1.6 is a mess with AMD issues. Graphical artifacts, brightness caps on laptops, crashes, etc

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@ne0phyte@feddit.org 2026-08-10 12:37

Can confirm. I am running Niri on Arch and I’ve been seeing these artifacts regularly the past few days. I’ve seen them before with broken amdgpu versions so I wasn’t too worried about them. For me playing video in Firefox and especially the Steam client seem to cause flickering horizontal stripes of artifacts that look similar to dead VRAM. No issues while gaming though.

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