It could be about 1,000 different things, including hardware issues completely unrelated to the OS. I also have a PC with a 7900XTX on Linux 6.18.2, using Plasma/Wayland and I’ve never had an unrecoverable system crash. Two of the other people that I game with are also running the exact same setup (Arch,btw/Linux6.18.2/Plasma/Wayland) without issue.
Blaming graphics cards sometimes feels like a meme. Its like if someone has any kind of problem and happen to mention that they use NVIDIA, you’ll see a huge portion of commenters, with nothing other to add, jump in to imply that it’s probably the NVIDIA card.
In fairness, distros do include their own patches, and it’s possible that there is some regression that showed up somewhere above 6.12 and he’s running a vanilla kernel and the Arch guys put in some patch that fixes whatever he’s seeing that isn’t in vanilla or something. Or maybe he’s using a distro that includes some kind of kernel patch that introduces the problem, if he’s not building his own kernels. I mean, I’ve got no idea what the guy is running; he doesn’t say.
I don’t doubt that it could be the graphics card. It is just that we don’t have the information to say for sure and their description leaves a lot of other possibilities.
Well when the crash happens and the screen shows an enormous amount of green artifacting, sure looks like a graphics driver and/or kernel issue to me. But yeah, I’m probably wrong because your experience is pristine. And the many hours of research I’ve done on this subject leads to the conclusion that there are issues with 6.13+ kernel, amdgpu driver, and Wayland, and especially if having more than one display connected (despite setting the refresh rates to the lowest common denominator).
But I’m sure I’m wrong and it’s something completely different. Thanks for the insight.
It could be about 1,000 different things, including hardware issues completely unrelated to the OS. I also have a PC with a 7900XTX on Linux 6.18.2, using Plasma/Wayland and I’ve never had an unrecoverable system crash. Two of the other people that I game with are also running the exact same setup (Arch,btw/Linux6.18.2/Plasma/Wayland) without issue.
Blaming graphics cards sometimes feels like a meme. Its like if someone has any kind of problem and happen to mention that they use NVIDIA, you’ll see a huge portion of commenters, with nothing other to add, jump in to imply that it’s probably the NVIDIA card.
In fairness, distros do include their own patches, and it’s possible that there is some regression that showed up somewhere above 6.12 and he’s running a vanilla kernel and the Arch guys put in some patch that fixes whatever he’s seeing that isn’t in vanilla or something. Or maybe he’s using a distro that includes some kind of kernel patch that introduces the problem, if he’s not building his own kernels. I mean, I’ve got no idea what the guy is running; he doesn’t say.
I agree.
I don’t doubt that it could be the graphics card. It is just that we don’t have the information to say for sure and their description leaves a lot of other possibilities.
Well when the crash happens and the screen shows an enormous amount of green artifacting, sure looks like a graphics driver and/or kernel issue to me. But yeah, I’m probably wrong because your experience is pristine. And the many hours of research I’ve done on this subject leads to the conclusion that there are issues with 6.13+ kernel, amdgpu driver, and Wayland, and especially if having more than one display connected (despite setting the refresh rates to the lowest common denominator).
But I’m sure I’m wrong and it’s something completely different. Thanks for the insight.
Gosh, you sure got me. I certainly look like an idiot basing my opinion on what you wrote.
Thanks to your sarcastic reply I’ve learned to read the mind of commenters before replying.
What an idiot I am for not realizing all of the troubleshooting steps that you’ve taken simply because you never mentioned them.
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