Fedora 44 Workstation Visual Artifacts

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I am experiencing recurrent visual artifacts across my desktop (horizontal static/blocky corruption and transient flickering). The issue is especially prominent in Brave/Chromium apps, but affects the desktop environment as well.

Things I already checked out

  • Kernel Logs (dmesg): No GPU ring timeouts or GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT errors reported.

  • Compositor Logs (journalctl -f _COMM=gnome-shell): Repeated warnings:

    Client provided invalid window geometry for xdg_surface#58 (brave-origin ...). Working around.

  • Screen capture behavior: Screenshots/recordings do not capture the artifacts, pointing to a display presentation/panel timing issue rather than a render buffer corruption.

What I Have Tried So Far

  1. Reset GPU tuning/undervolt profiles back to stock defaults in LACT.

  2. Force-enabled native Wayland and Vulkan backends in Chromium/Brave (--ozone-platform=wayland).

  3. Reinstalled kernel, mesa-dri-drivers, mutter, and gnome-shell via dnf reinstall.

  4. The issue persists across fresh desktop sessions.

System Information

  • OS: Fedora 44 Workstation

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 9800X3D

  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

  • Driver: Mesa 26.1.6

  • Kernel: 7.1.7-200

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Known issue with kernel 7.1.6 and 7.1.7. You can roll back to 7.1.5 for now.
See this thread: Graphical issues on AMD after kernel update to 7.1.6

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You’re a saint, my man!