RX 6600 with amdgpu/mesa screen flickering, unresponsive on GNOME

PhantasmEclipse · 2022-07-22 07:20:29

Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago I bought an XFX RX 6600. Because I wanted to test it on games that did not natively run on Linux, I have been using Windows since then, where the GPU worked fine. After becoming bored of Windows, I decided to switch back to Arch, only to run into this bizarre display issue. Essentially, my system has two GPUs - the iGPU in my Intel Core i5-11600K (UHD Graphics 750) and my RX 6600. My motherboard supports the use of both the integrated and discrete GPUs for multi-monitor, so I use this feature to drive my secondary monitor (75Hz 1080p) while my primary monitor (240Hz 1080p) is connected to my RX 6600. My integrated monitor works totally fine - yet the monitor connected to my RX 6600 experiences heavy flickering and complete display unresponsiveness (the seconds portion on my top bar clock is frozen) everywhere except for the cursor, which works completely fine on the primary monitor. I have found nothing on the internet that parallels this problem.

I have all the associated AMDGPU drivers from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU installed. lspci -k shows that the GPU appears to be working nominally under the amdgpu driver:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] (rev c7)
	Subsystem: XFX Limited Device 6505
	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
	Kernel modules: amdgpu

So therefore I really don't know what's wrong with the driver. I don't think I've made any custom Xorg configurations. However, I have used an Radeon HD 6450 in this system before - but I don't remember what I did with that. Could that be the reason why I'm experiencing these issues?

inxi -Fxxxrz:

System:
  Kernel: 5.18.12-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 42.0
    Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7D20 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: B560M PRO (MS-7D20) v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.10
    date: 04/16/2021
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0
    model: Logitech G304 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse serial: <filter>
    charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11600K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Rocket Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 480 KiB L2: 3 MiB
    L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4478 high: 4824 min/max: 800/4900 cores: 1: 4029
    2: 2858 3: 4824 4: 4600 5: 4785 6: 4635 7: 4649 8: 4753 9: 4774 10: 4634
    11: 4600 12: 4603 bogomips: 93924
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 750] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen12.1 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4c8a
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: XFX
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA 2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-5 empty: DP-3,DP-4,HDMI-A-4 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 0c45:6367
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,intel
    unloaded: modesetting,radeon,vesa alternate: fbdev gpu: amdgpu,i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.00x11.26")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.55")
  Monitor-1: DP-5 mapped: DisplayPort-1-4 pos: primary,left
    model: Dell S2522HG serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 dpi: 90
    size: 544x303mm (21.42x11.93") diag: 623mm (24.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI1 pos: right model: Acer SB230
    serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 75 dpi: 96
    size: 510x290mm (20.08x11.42") diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RKL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.3
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-3.4:10 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 0c76:161e class-ID: 0300 chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Device-4: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 0c45:6367
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.12-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 13.56 TiB used: 7.37 TiB (54.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 731030WD temp: 58.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Toshiba model: KBG40ZNS128G NVMe KIOXIA 128GB
    size: 119.24 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 10410106 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZBX-00AYRA0
    size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00BBHA0
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
  ID-5: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Milan model: II 1TB size: 953.84 GiB
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1012 scheme: GPT
  ID-6: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: SD9SN8W-256G-1006
    size: 238.47 GiB type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: GPT
  ID-7: /dev/sde type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST6000DM003-2CY186
    size: 5.46 TiB type: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
  ID-8: /dev/sdf type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: HDWE140 size: 3.64 TiB
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 114.31 GiB used: 82.92 GiB (72.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 548.9 MiB used: 65.7 MiB (12.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 72.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
    mem: 56.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 2494
Repos:
  Packages: 1541 pacman: 1487 flatpak: 54
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch
    2: https://arch.hu.fo/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    3: https://america.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
    4: https://de.arch.mirror.kescher.at/$repo/os/$arch
    5: https://at.arch.mirror.kescher.at/$repo/os/$arch
    6: https://mirror.chaoticum.net/arch/$repo/os/$arch
    7: https://mirror.theo546.fr/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    8: https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    9: https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/$repo/os/$arch
    10: https://europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
    11: https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    12: https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    13: https://mirror.pseudoform.org/$repo/os/$arch
    14: https://mirror.luzea.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    15: https://mirror.lty.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
    16: https://archlinux.thaller.ws/$repo/os/$arch
    17: https://asia.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
    18: https://phinau.de/arch/$repo/os/$arch
    19: https://archmirror.it/repos/$repo/os/$arch
    20: https://mirror.theash.xyz/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Info:
  Processes: 345 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 118 Memory: 23.3 GiB
  used: 7.18 GiB (30.8%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical Compilers:
  gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 14.0.6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.19

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by PhantasmEclipse (2022-07-22 07:22:10)

Lone_Wolf · 2022-07-22 10:36:45

Inxi appears to list 3 output devices : Screen-1 , Monitor-1 ( DP ) and Monitor-2 (HDMI) .

Are there 3 physical screens present or 2 ?

Please post xorg log , see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General for info where to find it.

The outputs of

$ xrandr -q
$ xrandr --listproviders

would also be useful .

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-07-22 10:37:07)

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#1 2022-07-22 07:20:29

RX 6600 with amdgpu/mesa screen flickering, unresponsive on GNOME

#2 2022-07-22 10:36:45

Re: RX 6600 with amdgpu/mesa screen flickering, unresponsive on GNOME

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