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ednervy

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Frequent black screens and screen freezes.

Since I bought my RX9070XT last year, I have been from a few to frequent black screens ; from what I could see it seems to be amdgpu-related, and dependant on the amgpu-firmware package version.

I had thought that it would be stopping at some point, so I finally judge it was worthy of a post here.

It always happen when using a browser (I am not sure if it could be linked to video hardware acceleration, I did not narrow it down to that) but almost never in-game.

The last `dmesg` but it's always the same issue:

sudo journalctl --dmesg -b -1
Mar 17 10:20:56 desktop kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:416:crtc-0] flip_done timed out

Package versions:

local/linux-firmware 20260309-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Default set
local/linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260309-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for AMD Radeon GPUs
local/linux 6.19.8.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules

I've reverted a lot to `linux-firmware-amdgpu-20251125-1-any` those past months with which I had less frequent screen freezes/black screens.

I do not know what I can do at this point. Could it be just a plain hardware defect? If yes, how to approach this for an RMA?

Let me know if I forgot any relevant information. Sorry if my post goes in every direction, I am writing this while being late.

Edit:

Not using VRR.

Display set at 2560x1440p@144Hz (native monitor resolution and max refresh rate).

Another screen freeze today:
Mar 17 15:02:12 desktop kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:416:crtc-0] flip_done timed out

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seth

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Re: Frequent black screens and screen freezes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … Vega_cards
Is this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate ?
What framerate/modeline are you running and does a lower refresh rate/resolution also show this behavior?

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ednervy

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Re: Frequent black screens and screen freezes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … Vega_cards

I thought this section was specific to Vega GPUs?

Is this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate ?

VRR is not enabled.

What framerate/modeline are you running and does a lower refresh rate/resolution also show this behavior?

144Hz (max of my monitor).

I do not know what a modeline is (do you mean modeset?).

I need to try other settings to answer than question.

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seth

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Re: Frequent black screens and screen freezes.

I thought this section was specific to Vega GPUs?

Just as a general reference to "power level related signal issues"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline

Certainly try the 60Hz behavior.

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ednervy

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Re: Frequent black screens and screen freezes.

I thought this section was specific to Vega GPUs?

Just as a general reference to "power level related signal issues"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline

It's been a while since I last modified a xorg.conf file! And I never knew that term.

But I never had to tweak anything since I've been using Wayland (which has been a while now) ; so I am not sure if you implied something only in case I was using X11?

Certainly try the 60Hz behavior.

Trying that since your previous message.

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