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AlmaMater

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Registered: 2007-02-28

Posts: 103

[SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Updating kwin to 6.5.4-3 solved the issue.

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Greetings,

I am having the following issue: In KDE, when I leave the PC turn on, it seems that after 15 min (Time I have setup to turn off the monitor), instead of turning off, the screen seems to dim (I have this option turned off) and stays there. (Happens 3 in 5 times). I cannot do anything else other than turn off the PC with the button.

Hardware:

CPU 9900X
GPU AMD 9070XT
64 DDR5
B850 Chipset

I use CoreCTRL just to manage the fans. Other than that is a quite a normal up-to-date Arch installation (Megasync being from the AUR and my printer drivers, everything else from official repos), no OC on the GPU or CPU. Unfortunately I cannot say exactly when this started.

I am attaching the full log of one of the sessions.

https://limewire.com/d/pEZLl#G7PK6WhRdl

Any help is welcome.

Last edited by AlmaMater (2025-12-15 11:55:20)

zpg443

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Registered: 2016-12-03

Posts: 315

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Did you try disabling the 9070XT and running on the CPU's integrated graphics? Does it then have the same issue? Please use pastebin for logs.

Last edited by zpg443 (2025-12-12 14:11:07)

rommager

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Registered: 2025-12-08

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

I also am having the same exact issue, though it does not happen as frequently.  It seems to have been over the past week or so, I can't say exactly how long.  It has happened about 4 times to me so far.  Here are my observations:

1) system does not respond to switching tty, i.e. ctrl+alt+F3
2) alt+sysrq+e will kill the session and boot me back to sddm (you will need to enable the magic key in your config to use this)
3) top shows an exorbitant amount of kworker processes (I tried dumping to a file, but top -b I did not realize cut off the process names.)

I also looked at free, and df and all looked fine.  Not sure what pertinent info to look for in journalctl?
Next time it happens, I will try ctrl+sysrq+r to see if I can regain control of the keyboard to switch tty while it is in an unstable state

KDE Plasma Wayland session
Kernel: 6.17.9-arch1-1
Uptime: 2 mins
Packages: 1481 (pacman), 8 (flatpak)
Shell: fish 4.2.1
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Plasma 6.5.4
WM: kwin
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (24) @ 4.954GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT
Memory: 3515MiB / 31994MiB

rommager

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Registered: 2025-12-08

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Been digging and have a little more info.  I checked my journalctl when the unclean boots started happening (journalctl --since "30 days ago" | grep shut\ down).  This shows when I started uncleanly killing the power due to the lock up.

This behavior seemed to have start for me with the update I ran on Dec 08.  The pacman.log shows these packages were upgraded on that update, so it is likely one of these packages is the issue.  I am checking for kernel errors, but I haven't found anything that seems to be related quite yet.

[PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0'
[PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
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[ALPM] installed aspnet-runtime-9.0 (9.0.11.sdk112-1)
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amish

Member

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 507

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Seems like duplicate of:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310907
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513151

Should be fixed by kwin update to 6.5.4-3

AlmaMater

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Registered: 2007-02-28

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Thanks for the replies. I will have access to my PC tomorrow and will try update or downgrade kwin and will come back with the results.

Regards!

rommager

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Registered: 2025-12-08

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] AMD GPU - Screen dims and and does not respont anymore

Agreed, this appears to be the exact issues I was seeing, in the logs and all.  Updated to kwin 6.5.4-3 to resolve.