Fedora 44 kernel 7.2.5 causes AMDGPU display problems

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Continuing the discussion from Fedora 44 kernel 7.2.5 causes AMDGPU display problems and HDMI failure on ThinkPad T14 Gen 3:

Thank you, Chris, I was happy to see that you had a simple solution. Unfortunately it did not work on my Fedora desktop. It is running Fedora 44, originally installed with Fedora 42.

I did what you suggested:

1. Boot into a previous kernel (7.2.4)
2. sudo dnf update --refresh *-firmware (no output)
3. sudo dnf reinstall kernel* (reinstalled)
4. sudo reboot
5. Boot into 7.2.5 kernel

No changes. The UI is still laggy enough to be unusable.

I have also run a normal update afterwards:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --offline
sudo dnf offline reboot

I got regular package updates (most recently vim packages), but nothing else. They applied fine.

Output of lspci | grep AMD:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 10)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 10)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M] (rev c8)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
05:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Upstream Port (rev 01)
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:08.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:0c.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:0d.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0c:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Upstream Port (rev 01)
0d:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:08.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:0c.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
0d:0d.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
14:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset USB 3.2 Controller (rev 01)
15:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset SATA Controller (rev 01)
16:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset USB 3.2 Controller (rev 01)
17:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset SATA Controller (rev 01)
18:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge PCIe Dummy Function (rev cb)
18:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h PSP/CCP
18:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
18:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
18:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio Controller
19:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 2.0 xHCI

Output of cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted:

0

Output of dnf info amd-gpu-firmware:

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Installed packages
Name            : amd-gpu-firmware
Epoch           : 0
Version         : 20260916
Release         : 1.fc44
Architecture    : noarch
Installed size  : 28.0 MiB
Source          : linux-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.src.rpm
From repository : updates
Summary         : Firmware for AMD GPUs
URL             : http://www.kernel.org/
License         : LicenseRef-Fedora-Firmware
Description     : Firmware for AMD amdgpu and radeon GPUs.
Vendor          : Fedora Project

I suspect the issue is I’m not getting the fix due to some error with my package repos, but I’m not sure. I have some added repos because I was working with ollama a while back. It’s possible they’re causing issues.

Output of dnf repolist:

repo id                                                                    repo name                                                                                   
adoptium-temurin-java-repository                                           Adoptium                                                                                    
amdgpu                                                                     AMDGPU 6.2.3 repository                                                                     
code                                                                       Visual Studio Code                                                                          
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm                             Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek                                                      
docker-ce-stable                                                           Docker CE Stable - x86_64                                                                   
fedora                                                                     Fedora 44 - x86_64                                                                          
fedora-cisco-openh264                                                      Fedora 44 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                    
gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo                                       gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo                                                        
google-chrome                                                              google-chrome                                                                               
rocm                                                                       ROCm 6.2.3 repository                                                                       
rpmfusion-free                                                             RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free                                                             
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free - Updates                                                   
rpmfusion-nonfree                                                          RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree                                                          
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver                                            RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver                                          
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam                                                    RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Steam                                                  
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Updates                                                
updates                                                                    Fedora 44 - x86_64 - Updates         

dnf check comes back clean (no output).

Any help would be appreciated. I am using a backup computer to type this, but I would really like my Fedora desktop back. Thank you so much in advance!

Edit: Additional information follows.

Symptoms:

I do not get a black screen, but (it appears) the AMD driver does not load. SDDM loads and I can log in, but the whole time it is lagging, which I assume is because it’s falling back to some default driver. I can switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F3, and I can ssh into it, which is how I’m collecting this information.

I do not see any excessive resource use (CPU, memory, I/O). With the exception of slow rendering, everything appears normal. I can log in, and programs start as normal (e.g. my Vorta backup runs on login). I just can’t control the mouse because it jumps all over the place, and it renders slow.

Hardware:
GPU: product: Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M]
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI MS-7E12
Monitors: One Asus Pro 4k and one Asus 1440p in dual configuration. I have not tried others, but I suspect the high pixel count contributes to how slow it is.

Software:
Fedora release is 44. It is the workstation spin, originally installed at version 42 and then upgraded incrementally (at least once a week).

I run KDE Plasma desktop.

Additional logs:

I am seeing many instances of this in journal:

sddm-helper-start-wayland[1541]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\nMESA: error: amdgpu: ac_query_gpu_info failed.\n"

And:

sddm-helper-start-wayland[1541]: "kwin_core: Failed to open drm node : No such file or directory\nkwin_scene_opengl: couldn't find dev node for drm device \n"

There is no /dev/drm, but there is a /dev/dri directory.

Edit 2:
glxinfo reports (excerpt):

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.8, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.2.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.2.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 26.2.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

[py0xc3 (Chris)]

@alphapenguin

Output of lspci | grep AMD:

Your problem can be assumed to be a different one because you do not have an AMD 680M:

@alphapenguin

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M] (rev c8)

Unfortunately, I can currently not take over much more cases. But I add a few tags to make this easier to find for respective experts.

I also update the topic name (maybe you can further refine it?), because the “solution does not work for me” is misleading → as mentioned, I expect you have a different problem.

We have at this time a lot of feedback that the 680M issue is solved, so that’s another indicator that suggests a different issue when it’s not working somewhere. But the key indicator remains that you have no 680M

Also, at first glance, I see you have a lot of external repos: if others have not the issue of yours, one of the external repos`packages might be related. That said, your kernel is obviously not tainted.

My suggestion would be to add more details of your context (incl. what Fedora variant you use, hardware, software, customizations, etc.), what is the exact error, how does it manifest and when, when does it reproduce and when not, and can you get logs? E.g., when 7.2.5 is broken but 7.2.4 works, can you then boot into 7.2.5 (even if all is black), wait some time, force reboot, and then boot back to 7.2.4 and get logs of the previous 7.2.5 boot, or is the then-previous log still 7.2.4? Proper logs would be something from, e.g., sudo journalctl -k --boot=-1 --no-hostname (-1 is the then-previous boot, -k is kernel) and maybe additionally sudo journalctl --boot=-1 --no-hostname (full logs, not only kernel)

Hopefully, someone can take over this case.

@alphapenguin

2. sudo dnf update --refresh *-firmware (no output)

If you tried today, now already some time after this update was pushed to stable, I expect you already had it installed in an earlier update yesterday or the day before. So it is likely not relevant that nothing was found to be updated in that case: the 20260916 you have shown is the current one. So that’s fine.

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Thank you for confirming that it’s unrelated and other advice. I will add some more information and revise the title. I think it did indeed break around the same time, but I didn’t notice until later. I used Discover for updates and just told it to apply updates and power off then I didn’t return for a day or two.

[anotheruser (Mark)]

try sudo dracut --kver 7.2.5-200.fc44.$(uname -m) --force to regenerate the initramfs file for 7.2.5

You could also try the 7.2.6 kernel
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-1649616d86

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Thank you for replying.

Just to make sure I understand:

1. Before running dracut, do I boot into the 7.2.5 kernel?
2. If I update to 7.2.6, will I have to “unfreeze” it later or will upgrades continue normally after that?

[anotheruser (Mark)]

@alphapenguin

1. Before running dracut, do I boot into the 7.2.5 kernel?

dracut --force rebuilds the initramfs for the running kernel.
The option --kver some_kernel_version does rebuild for the specified kernel version, not necessarily the current kernel.

2. I don’t know what exactly you mean with unfreeze, but updates will continue normally. So an upcoming kernel-7.2.7 will be installed once available in the updates repository.

UPDATE: install the 7.2.6 kernel while running the working 7.2.4 kernel. This will prevent the system from removing the 7.2.4 kernel.

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Ok I tried dracut. I was running the 7.2.5 kernel at the time. I made sure the version was exactly the same between the running kernel and the version provided to dracut. I then booted into the same (7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64)

Now I get the SDDM login as before, but now when I log in, I’m only seeing a black screen with my mouse pointer. I can move the mouse, but the desktop no longer appears. I can still switch to text console and ssh into it.

Dracut did give me a warning about bluetooth, which I do have on that motherboard, but I had turned it off earlier. Only mentioning that in case it’s relevant.

EDIT: forgot to add that booting into 7.2.4 exhibits the same problem.

[anotheruser (Mark)]

Did you rebuild the initramfs for 7.2.4 too by mistake?
Pls post output of ls -l /boot/initramfs-* /boot/vmlinuz-*

also try rpm -V $( rpm -qa \*-firmware ). This should not give any output.

[alphapenguin (AP)]

I only ran the dracut command you posted, so I don’t think so?

rw-------. 1 root root 173377932 Nov 10  2024 /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-44fd8f3b88754a669dd9e2aecd37c4de.img
-rw-------. 1 root root  86865473 Sep  5 08:38 /boot/initramfs-7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root  86983284 Sep 10 20:12 /boot/initramfs-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root  88418286 Sep 20 11:49 /boot/initramfs-7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64.img
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  16296296 Nov 10  2024 /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-44fd8f3b88754a669dd9e2aecd37c4de
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  18872680 Sep  1 20:00 /boot/vmlinuz-7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  19024232 Sep  6 20:00 /boot/vmlinuz-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  19036520 Sep 10 20:00 /boot/vmlinuz-7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64

rpm gives:

package amd-ucode-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch. is not installed

[anotheruser (Mark)]

@alphapenguin

package amd-ucode-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch. is not installed

sudo dnf install amd-ucode-firmware and then rerun the dracut command for 7.2.5.

pls also post rpm -qa \*firmware |sort.

[alphapenguin (AP)]

This is the output. I will install the package, run dracut, reboot and report back with results.

alsa-sof-firmware-2025.12.2-1.fc44.noarch
amd-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
amd-ucode-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
atheros-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
brcmfmac-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
cirrus-audio-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
intel-audio-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
intel-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
intel-npu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
intel-vsc-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
iwlbluetooth-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
iwlegacy-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
iwlwifi-dvm-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
iwlwifi-mld-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
iwlwifi-mvm-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
libertas-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
linux-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
mt7xxx-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
nvidia-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
nxpwireless-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
qcom-wwan-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
realtek-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch
tiwilink-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch

EDIT: Ran it and it thinks it’s already installed:

sudo dnf install amd-ucode-firmware
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "amd-ucode-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch" is already installed.

Nothing to do.

[anotheruser (Mark)]

what does rpm -V amd-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch give?

wait, did you run rpm -V $( rpm -qa \*-firmware ) or
rpm -V $( rpm -qa \*-firmware ). , with the dot at the end?

[alphapenguin (AP)]

@anotheruser

rpm -V amd-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch

This returns nothing:

rpm -V amd-gpu-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch

This also returns nothing:

rpm -V $( rpm -qa \*-firmware )

With the dot it gives:

package amd-ucode-firmware-20260916-1.fc44.noarch. is not installed

[anotheruser (Mark)]

the dot is not part of the command

No idea why you get a black screen with 7.2.4? Maybe try to cold boot.
Did you install some other updates today, before you rebooted? The initramfs was not rebuild for 7.2.4. today.

@alphapenguin

-rw-------. 1 root root  86865473 Sep  5 08:38 /boot/initramfs-7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root  86983284 Sep 10 20:12 /boot/initramfs-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root  88418286 Sep 20 11:49 /boot/initramfs-7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64.img

update:

@alphapenguin

glxinfo reports (excerpt):

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.8, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.2.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60

ah, this looks more like a mesa issue…
maybe try updating to mesa 26.2.3.

Could you also post output of inxi -ezxx ?

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Sorry for the delay. I had to run a couple of errands. Sorry for the copy-paste error with the dot. That was my bad.

I tried what you suggested with a cold boot. I found that I do get my desktop now with 7.2.4. I also accidentally booted to 7.1.x and had the same blackout issue.

Once I had the desktop, I was able to (slowly) start a konsole session. I discovered that while I’m in the desktop, all my cores are used close to 100%. If I ctrl-alt-F3 to console, it drops back to zero. The offending process was kwin_wayland, using almost 1600% cpu (lol).

Here is the inxi output, while booted to 7.2.4:

System:
  Kernel: 7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.2.1
  Console: pty pts/3 DM: SDDM Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7E12) v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.F0 date: 10/08/2024
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache:
    L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4176 min/max: 426/5053 boost: enabled cores: 1: 4176 2: 4176 3: 4176 4: 4176
    5: 4176 6: 4176 7: 4176 8: 4176 9: 4176 10: 4176 11: 4176 12: 4176 13: 4176 14: 4176 15: 4176
    16: 4176 bogomips: 134399
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M]
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-1,DP-2 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c
  Device-2: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2.4.1:9 chip-ID: 045e:075d
  Display: unspecified server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: amdgpu
    tty: 167x41
  Monitor-1: DP-1 model: ASUS PA329CV res: 3840x2160 dpi: 138 diag: 813mm (32")
  Monitor-2: DP-2 model: Asus PB278 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 diag: 685mm (27")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: swrast
    inactive: wayland,x11,device-0
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: mesa v: 26.2.2 note: console (EGL sourced) renderer: llvmpipe
    (LLVM 22.1.8 256 bits)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe
    device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 18:00.6
    chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2.1:4 chip-ID: 0c76:161f
  Device-4: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2.4.1:9 chip-ID: 045e:075d
  Device-5: Logitech Blue Microphones driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-2.4.2:10 chip-ID: 046d:0ab7
  API: ALSA v: k7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.6.9 status: n/a (root, process) with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 2500 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter driver: mt7921e
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0f:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616
  IF: wlp15s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-7:3 chip-ID: 0e8d:0616
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
    hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.46 TiB used: 2.22 TiB (40.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 39.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 4TB size: 3.64 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter> temp: 30 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 911.02 GiB (48.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 525 MiB (53.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 20 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 911.02 GiB (48.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.9 C mobo: 37.5 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C mem: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 223
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.93 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (14.3%)
  Processes: 459 Power: uptime: 11m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259 default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 94 Compilers: clang: 18
    gcc: 16.2.1 Shell: Sudo v: 1.9.17p2 running-in: pty pts/3 inxi: 3.3.41

[anotheruser (Mark)]

the mesa driver in use is llvmpipe a pure software emulation. So for some reason kwin is not using the GPU at all.

pls check journal for errors (-p 3) or warnings (-p 4) , e.g journalctl -b -p 4
or post output of journalctl -b -p 3 --no-hostname --no-pager and rpm -qa mesa\* |sort

[glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew)]

In case it is any help, I guess this bug report looks similar:

505240 – kde-plasma/kwin (wayland) eats 100% of my gpu for no apparent...

One of the commenters reports that he is also using a 7900 xtx

[alphapenguin (AP)]

Output of sudo journalctl -b -p 3 --no-hostname --no-pager:

Sep 20 09:40:07 kernel: virt/tdx: TDX not supported by the host platform
Sep 20 09:40:09 kernel: usb 3-2.3.4.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Sep 20 13:40:14 kernel: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/mcu.c:471:15
Sep 20 13:40:14 kernel: index 3 is out of range for type 'void *[3]'
Sep 20 13:40:15 bluetoothd[1023]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
Sep 20 13:40:15 bluetoothd[1023]: Failed to add device 5C:BA:37:A3:EB:6B (1): Failed (0x03)
Sep 20 13:40:15 abrtd[1108]: '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2024-11-11-15:40:32.374147-1553' is not a problem directory
Sep 20 13:40:20 firewalld[1025]: ERROR: NAME_CONFLICT: new_policy_object(): 'docker-forwarding'
Sep 20 13:40:21 dbus-broker-launch[1573]: Ignoring duplicate name 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' in service file '/usr/share//dbus-1/services/org.kde.dolphin.FileManager1.service'
Sep 20 13:40:38 dbus-broker-launch[2113]: Ignoring duplicate name 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' in service file '/usr/share//dbus-1/services/org.kde.dolphin.FileManager1.service'
Sep 20 13:41:15 sddm-helper[2508]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Sep 20 13:41:38 bluetoothd[1023]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
Sep 20 13:42:34 systemd[2072]: Failed to start plasma-krunner.service - KRunner.
Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: Applying output configuration failed!

Output of sudo rpm -qa mesa\* |sort:

mesa-dri-drivers-26.2.2-6.fc44.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64
mesa-filesystem-26.2.2-6.fc44.i686
mesa-filesystem-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-26.2.2-6.fc44.i686
mesa-libEGL-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-26.2.2-6.fc44.i686
mesa-libgbm-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64
mesa-libGL-26.2.2-6.fc44.i686
mesa-libGL-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-9.0.3-8.fc44.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0.3-8.fc44.x86_64
mesa-vulkan-drivers-26.2.2-6.fc44.x86_64

The command journalctl -b -p 4 shows 785 lines.

Among the errors is bluetooth, I assume related to the warning dracut gave me.

Some excerpts from those lines:

Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\nMESA: error: amdgpu: ac_query_gpu_i>
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\nMESA: error: amdgpu: ac_query_gpu_i>
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "kwin_core: Failed to open drm node : No such file or directory\nkwin_scene_opengl: couldn't find dev node for drm de>
Sep 20 13:40:21 systemd[1]: iscsi.service: Unit cannot be reloaded because it is inactive.
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\n"
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\n"
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\n"
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "amdgpu: amdgpu_query_sw_info(amdgpu_sw_info_address_prt_wa_control_bit) failed.\n"
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "No backend specified, automatically choosing drm\n"
Sep 20 13:40:21 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "Accepting client connections on sockets: QList(\"wayland-0\")\n"

This one is repeated a lot:

Sep 20 13:40:29 sddm-helper-start-wayland[1570]: "kwin_wayland_drm: The main thread was hanging temporarily!\n"

And:

Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: Failed to find a working output layer configuration! Enabled layers:
Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: src KWin::RectF(0,0 2560x1440) -> dst KWin::Rect(0,0 2560x1440)
Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: The main thread was hanging temporarily!
Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: Applying output configuration failed!
Sep 20 13:46:48 kwin_wayland[2878]: atomic commit failed: Permission denied

[anotheruser (Mark)]

did you install AMD’s drivers at some point?
you have these repos enabled

@alphapenguin

repo id               repo name                                                                                   
amdgpu                AMDGPU 6.2.3 repository                                                                     
rocm                  ROCm 6.2.3 repository                                                                       

what’s output of

dnf list --installed | grep -E "(amdgpu|rocm)$"

and cat /proc/cmdline

[alphapenguin (AP)]

I believe so, back when I was trying to get rocm working with ollama a while ago.

Output of sudo dnf list --installed | grep -E "(amdgpu|rocm)$":

amdgpu-core.noarch                                   1:6.2.60203-2044426.el9             amdgpu
comgr.x86_64                                         2.8.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hip-devel.x86_64                                     6.2.41134.60203-124.el9             rocm
hip-runtime-amd.x86_64                               6.2.41134.60203-124.el9             rocm
hipblas.x86_64                                       2.2.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hipblas-devel.x86_64                                 2.2.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hipblaslt.x86_64                                     0.8.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hipblaslt-devel.x86_64                               0.8.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hipcc.x86_64                                         1.1.1.60203-124.el9                 rocm
hsa-rocr.x86_64                                      1.14.0.60203-124.el9                rocm
hsa-rocr-devel.x86_64                                1.14.0.60203-124.el9                rocm
hsakmt-roct-devel.x86_64                             20240607.4.05.60203-124.el9         rocm
libdrm-amdgpu.x86_64                                 1:2.4.120.60203-2044426.el9         amdgpu
libdrm-amdgpu-common.noarch                          1.0.0.60203-2044426.el9             amdgpu
libdrm-amdgpu-devel.x86_64                           1:2.4.120.60203-2044426.el9         amdgpu
llvm-amdgpu-libs.x86_64                              1:18.1.60203-2044426.el9            amdgpu
openmp-extras-runtime.x86_64                         18.62.0.60203-124.el9               rocm
rocblas-devel.x86_64                                 4.2.1.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocm-core.x86_64                                     6.2.3.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocm-hip-runtime.x86_64                              6.2.3.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocm-language-runtime.x86_64                         6.2.3.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocm-llvm.x86_64                                     18.0.0.24355.60203-124.el9          rocm
rocm-opencl.x86_64                                   2.0.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocm-opencl-icd-loader.x86_64                        1.2.60203-124.el9                   rocm
rocm-opencl-runtime.x86_64                           6.2.3.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocminfo.x86_64                                      1.0.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocprofiler-register.x86_64                          0.4.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocrand.x86_64                                       3.1.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocrand-devel.x86_64                                 3.1.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
rocsolver.x86_64                                     3.26.0.60203-124.el9                rocm
rocsparse.x86_64                                     3.2.0.60203-124.el9                 rocm
roctracer.x86_64                                     4.1.60203.60203-124.el9             rocm

And cmdline is:

BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64 root=UUID=d9605eb6-228e-4e08-a9c5-de17fa675b16 ro rootflags=subvol=root quiet