Dual monitor - HDR - lot of flickering and freezes

Hi

Fedora 42 here, NVIDIA video card, dual monitor (gnome).
On second monitor I’ve activated HDR and after a while, both started to flicker and freeze the whole system.
Unpluging second monitor solves the issue.
I unticked the HDR thing.
So far so good.

❯ fastfetch 
         .';:cccccccccccc:;,.             ---------------
      .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;.          OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Adams) x86_64
    .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:.        Host: ROG Strix G614JI_G614JI (1.0)
  .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;.      Kernel: Linux 6.13.11-200.fc41.x86_64
 .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:.     Uptime: 8 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:.    Packages: 2441 (rpm), 14 (flatpak)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc,    Shell: fish 4.0.1
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc:    Display (LG Electronics 32"): 3840x2160 @ 60 Hz (as 3072x1728) in 32" [External]
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc:    Display (TMX1603): 2560x1600 @ 240 Hz (as 2048x1280) in 16" [Built-in]
cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc;    DE: GNOME 48.1
ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc'    WM: Mutter (Wayland)
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc;     WM Theme: Adwaita-dark
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc;      Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3/4]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:,       Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,.        Font: Cantarell (12pt) [GTK2/3/4]
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'.          Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
:ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..             Terminal: Ptyxis 48.1
 ':cccccccccccccccc::;,.                  Terminal Font: FiraCode Nerd Font weight=450 (12pt)
                                          CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX (32) @ 5.60 GHz
                                          GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]
                                          GPU 2: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics @ 1.65 GHz [Integrated]
                                          Memory: 5.86 GiB / 30.92 GiB (19%)
                                          Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
                                          Disk (/): 11.51 GiB / 1.70 TiB (1%) - zfs
                                          Disk (/zdev): 7.24 GiB / 19.86 GiB (36%) - zfs
                                          Disk (/zroot): 192.00 KiB / 1.69 TiB (0%) - zfs
                                          Local IP (enp108s0): 192.168.68.108/24
                                          Battery (R220358): 48% [Charging, AC Connected]
                                          Locale: en_US.UTF-8

This is shitty situation , fedora is brand new and has lot of issues…

Why you are running
Kernel: Linux 6.13.11-200.fc41.x86_64
Fedora 42 ships 6.14 as default?

Until today I didnt experienced that issue but today I did an update, something from that list has issues?!

❯ sudo dnf history info
Transaction ID : 122
Begin time     : 2025-04-20 08:50:52
Begin rpmdb    : a99637b33268f18255417bd4614281e7a93aa8650c7e4b4c8c1e340712d092a4
End time       : 2025-04-20 08:51:26
End rpmdb      : 92c3d9022826554793c9d95329ea9246ebae31ad19389e7a4f8a848b8f34c2f7
User           : 1000 <bob>
Status         : Ok
Releasever     : 42
Description    : dnf --exclude=kernel* --disablerepo=zfs* update --refresh
Comment        : 
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take a good look at my fastfetch, I am running zfs!

Yes you are. Have noticed

Unpluging the second monitor doesnt help, it keeps freezing!
so its not the HDR.
im sick of these daily issues

1 Like

Having the same issue and It wasn’t a problem until the last security update on 42 before than it was working fine

indeed.
I don’t even understand why do fedora’s Devs love this way of updating so frequently, that is not good.
I really am thinking about leaving this distro, unbelievable unstable.
My sound broke.
My screen is flickering.
Gnome also has many issues,etc etc.
fuck it