Weird unresponsive writing issue on Fedora 41

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First of all, I just installed Fedora (KDE) a couple months ago on my desktop and now for university on my new laptop (amd cpu w/ integrated graphics). As you may guess, I and am pretty much clueless on many things with Linux.

Now, just as the title states, I have a weird issue with unresponsive writing since like three days on my laptop. It already starts when typing the password at login. I say “weird” because I noticed some things:

  1. The issue only persists in certain programs. For example using a browser, I don’t have this issue. But typing something in the console or searchbar, the issue is there
  2. In some apps, the unresponsiveness is extremely predictable. I.e. at login, when typing the full password, it always show only one character but (and only) after moving the mouse, it showes everything. I noticed this behaviour in the searchbar and console as well.
  3. In (2.) I said “some apps”. This is because in other apps (i.e. Obsidian), the unresponsiveness has nothing to do with moving the mouse (as far as I’ve noticed)
  4. When having System Monitor open, the issue completely perishes from every app and comes up again just after closing it.

After looking at some graphics information, I found this in the “OpenGL (EGL)” tab: “_amdgpu_device_initialize failed”. I searched for this on the internet and somehow doubt that this has something to do with my problem, but maybe you guys know better.

Any help is much appreciated : )

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There are often issues with very new hardware unless the vendor supports linux (and even then they may provide a driver that is not yet available in linux distros). Some issues are fixed with firmware updates from the vendor. Since issues like this are rarely specific to a linux distro, searching vendor and other distro forums can be helpful.

Please post more details of the new laptop, e.g., by running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal (as searchable, pre-formatted text using the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel). This will help others with similar hardware and issues find this topic.

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Well, the weird thing is that I only have this problem since a few days. Before, it worked flawlessly.

inxi -Fzxx outputs this:

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.3 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 83D3 v: IdeaPad Pro 5 14AHP9
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad Pro 5 14AHP9
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: LENOVO_MT_83D3_BU_idea_FM_IdeaPad Pro 5 14AHP9 UEFI: LENOVO
    v: NBCN20WW date: 05/27/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.1 Wh (53.2%) condition: 84.7/84.0 Wh (100.9%)
    volts: 15.5 min: 15.6 model: Sunwoda L23D4PF1 serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/5100 boost: enabled cores: 1: 400
    2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400
    12: 400 13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 bogomips: 121374
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Phoenix3 vendor: Lenovo
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-1,
    Writeback-1 bus-ID: 63:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1900 temp: 27.0 C
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b7e8
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.4 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: N/A display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1440x900 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.7 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi gfx1103_r1 LLVM
    19.1.0 DRM 3.59 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:1900
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:1900 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition
    Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 63:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 63:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 63:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Bluetooth 5.2 Adapter [MediaTek MT7922]
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 0489:e0d8
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
    lmp-v: 11
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 11.36 GiB (1.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740
    SDDPMQD-1T00-1101 size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    serial: <filter> temp: 21.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 952.28 GiB used: 10.91 GiB (1.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 415.2 MiB (42.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 51.3 MiB (8.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 952.28 GiB used: 10.91 GiB (1.1%) 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: 30.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 28 GiB available: 27.2 GiB used: 4.24 GiB (15.6%)
  Processes: 441 Power: uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: 23 pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 15
    pm: snap pkgs: 8 Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: konsole
    inxi: 3.3.36
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Alright, I don’t know why I didn’t have this idea before but I just booted the kernel version 6.11.7-300… and with this everything seems to be working fine. Maybe I just have to hope that this will be fixed with the next kernel upgrade.

Should I maybe report this as a bug somewhere?