On Fedora 44 KDE Plasma, kernel 7.1.6-201.fc44 , GPU is a Radeon 9070 XT. After updating last night, I have been having some weird graphical artifacts in the form of colorful bands that occasionally flash across the screen. It’s not a hardware issue, as the artifacts go away if I boot into 7.1.5. This is what they look like:
Seems to be a kernel regression to me - should I just go right to filing a report on bugzilla or is there anything else I should try first?
I have the same issue. Updated to kernel 7.1.6-201.fc44 today and have some flickering on the desktop when moving the mouse. Flickering is completely gone when switching back to kernel 7.1.5.
I’m using Fedora 44 KDE and a Radeon 9070 XT GPU. Came here to ask for help and saw this discussion.
Here’s my complete hardware info:
System:
Kernel: 7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.3 Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop
Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7C84)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American
Megatrends LLC. v: 1.K3 date: 07/17/2026
CPU:
Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3598 min/max: 563/4674 cores: 1: 3598 2: 3598 3: 3598
4: 3598 5: 3598 6: 3598 7: 3598 8: 3598 9: 3598 10: 3598 11: 3598 12: 3598
13: 3598 14: 3598 15: 3598 16: 3598 17: 3598 18: 3598 19: 3598 20: 3598
21: 3598 22: 3598 23: 3598 24: 3598
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 [Radeon RX 9070/9070
XT/9070 GRE] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 3440x1440~144Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: radeonsi,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.5 renderer: AMD Radeon RX
9070 XT (radeonsi gfx1201 ACO DRM 3.64 7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64)
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 drivers: radv,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
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 48 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB
API: ALSA v: k7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
IF: enp38s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 7.28 TiB used: 3.2 TiB (44.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZBX-00AYRA0
size: 1.82 TiB
ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZBX-00AYRA0
size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 930.51 GiB used: 24.59 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1022 MiB used: 20 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 930.51 GiB used: 24.59 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-4: /opt size: 930.51 GiB used: 24.59 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-5: /var/log size: 930.51 GiB used: 24.59 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-6: /var/tmp size: 930.51 GiB used: 24.59 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 5
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.25 GiB used: 5.33 GiB (17.1%)
Processes: 589 Uptime: 10m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.41
For info, I’m using a 7900 XTX and not seeing any issues.
Same kernel and version of KDE, not affected.
I thought I was going crazy, but I see them too. RX 9070 XT as well
good to know, seems to be limited to only 9070 XT so far. Maybe other 9000 AMD cards given similarities, if anyone on a 9060 or similar is having issues would be good to know. I’ll do a bit more digging and file a bug report on bugzilla soon.
+1
Seeing this on my 9070 XT as well. For me it seems to happen consistently when logging into a session and then clears up. After that it’s sporadic.
Reverting to 7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64 resolves it for me for now.
Chiming in with another report, but of the 9070 non-xt. I was getting similiar flickers/artifacts, most noticeable when opening/closing/resizing windows. so far seems to be fine on 7.1.5, though i’ll have to test more thoroughly tomorrow to see if it’s stable.
Can confirm that it makes the 9070 XT unusuable as well with flickering and artifacting on 7.1.6, rolling back to 7.1.5 fixes it
Exactly the same. Kernel 7.1.6-201.fc44. 9070XT. Rolling back to 7.1.5 resolved it.
If you open a case let me know, I’ll keep an eye and provide any info requested.
Same thing here for me. Noted that turning off HDR and VRR made the problem go away. Having the same problem on my laptop 680m when HDR is enabled.
HDR disabled on monitor for me (so no options shown in KDE) and tried disabling VRR and it continued.
I have the same artifacts with 9060xt on current kernel.
Did you try to lower your hz aswell? I did a switch to 60 from 240 and was then able to go back.
Aldo noted that i could tigger the issue by hitting print screen.
Just locked it down to 60hz and VRR disabled. Still getting artifacting although maybe not as frequently (not a solid metric I know)
One thing I noted that for me artifacts appear way more when doing cpu (not gpu) stress testing with occt.
I am seeing some artifacts with my 780m (RDNA 3).
I’m having the same issue. Since updating to kernel 7.1.6, I periodically have visual artifacts just like in the screenshots shown. I’m on a Framework 13 AMD Ryzen 7 7840U. My setup has gnome, hyprland, and niri installed. I have the flickering issue on niri, but can’t reproduce on hyprland and gnome - thought it was niri specific until I saw this thread, but might just be certain niri animations triggering the problem. Booting from 7.1.5 fixes the issue entirely.
Same on 7900GRE and Fedora 44 Gnome
I think this bugzilla issue is covering it: 2512106 – [amdgpu regression] Kernel 7.1.6-201 causes KWin atomic commit failures and dual-monitor corruption; 7.1.5-201 works - added a comment
