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Jadeiseepy

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Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

I'm having graphics strange graphic artifacts on my laptop. They started around 2025-3-31, and they look like this:

Here's my system info:
Host: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) A5
Kernel: 6.14.2-zen1-1-zen
Resolution: 2256x1504
DE: GNOME 48.1 (wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7640U w/ Radeon 760M Graphics (12) @ 4.972GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Phoenix1

gromit

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Do you also have those when you boot from the latest "linux" package? linux-zen has a few different options and patches enabled.

Xephon

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Do you see those artifacts in all apps or exclusively in Firefox?

In the latter case you're dealing with a regression introduced in Firefox 137 (released on April 1, ~ around March 31):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304962
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304733

Jadeiseepy

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Do you see those artifacts in all apps or exclusively in Firefox?

In the latter case you're dealing with a regression introduced in Firefox 137 (released on April 1, ~ around March 31):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304962
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304733

Now that I think about it, yes, it is only in LibreWolf. But the artifacts only sometimes look like the ones on those threads.

Xephon

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Artifacts could look different on different GPUs. Did you try to fix it as suggested in the aforementioned threads?

Jadeiseepy

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Artifacts could look different on different GPUs. Did you try to fix it as suggested in the aforementioned threads?

No, because Resist Fingerprinting is off, and gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled is set to its default (false), which are the only two solutions (I could find at least) in those threads

Jadeiseepy

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Alright, it seems like GNOME is crashing, and sometimes taking the whole system down with it. It spit this out in dmesg:

kern  :info  : [10983.545054] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
kern  :info  : [10983.548380] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Completed
kern  :err   : [10983.548544] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:157 vmid:4 pasid:32775)
kern  :err   : [10983.548556] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu:  in process gnome-shell pid 3185 thread gnome-shel:cs0 pid 3217)
kern  :err   : [10983.548562] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x000080012778f000 from client 10
kern  :err   : [10983.548568] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x0040113B
kern  :err   : [10983.548572] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
kern  :err   : [10983.548576] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
kern  :err   : [10983.548579] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 WALKER_ERROR: 0x5
kern  :err   : [10983.548582] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
kern  :err   : [10983.548585] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 MAPPING_ERROR: 0x1
kern  :err   : [10983.548589] amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: 	 RW: 0x0

Xephon

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

There is an old thread with seemingly the same errors:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=284076

Some users were able to mitigate that problem using kernel parameters, some weren't...

Wouldn't hurt to try lts-kernels or zen-kernel as suggested by @gromit

seth

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

No, because Resist Fingerprinting is off, and gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled is set to its default (false), which are the only two solutions (I could find at least) in those threads

Second one seems to refer to https://support.mozilla.org/bm/question … er-1445321 as solution.
Edit: which is NOT the "chosen solution" ITT.

Last edited by seth (2025-04-28 19:35:50)

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Jadeiseepy

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Okay, so its not a LibreWolf issue, as it just started happening in Cities: Skylines

seth

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Wouldn't hurt to try lts-kernels or zen-kernel as suggested by @gromit

Though APUs have fallen victim to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen#Random_reboots (so ignore the specific symptom discussed there)

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Jadeiseepy

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

I have already tried using zen (it's my main kernel, although i switched to the vanilla kernel to see and it's still there)

seth

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Re: Strange Artifacting on Framework Laptop 13

Wouldn't hurt to try lts-kernels

Though APUs have fallen victim to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen#Random_reboots (so ignore the specific symptom discussed there)

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