AMD Ryzen AI 300 not fully supported by Linux yet?

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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This is most likely a mesa bug. You should report it there.

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Thereā€™s a kernel here which includes some AMD driver crash fixes:

Seems like Framework laptops with the high DPI and refresh rate tend to be pretty good with exposing driver bugs.

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I couldnā€™t figure out the debs to download, but thanks for the link! Itā€™s good to know work is in progress.

As an update, most of my problems have been solved by moving to kernel 6.16.0, mesa 25.1.7~kisak1~p.

The one remaining problem is the periodic screen flickering/warping. Has anyone found a fix for that? Is there a combo of drivers/kernel that makes this GPU work reliably yet?

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As an update, most of my problems have been solved by moving to kernel 6.16.0, mesa 25.1.7~kisak1~p

Oh, thatā€™s wildā€¦ I didnā€™t know the versions had progressed that high, Iā€™m sitting here running 25.0.7 thinking that was brand new and up to date. I might try that, I havenā€™t seen the flickering in a very long time but I still have weird userland GPU issues that might be impacted by it. Thanks for the tip.

Is there a combo of drivers/kernel that makes this GPU work reliably yet?

The best workaround Iā€™ve encountered so far has been FW supportā€™s recommendation to enable ā€œgaming modeā€ in the BIOS to lock 2 GB of RAM to the GPU. That doesnā€™t make it fully reliable for me, but it reduces the rate of trouble to once every week or so which is more-or-less tolerable.

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I tried the trick of telling BIOS to dedicate 2GB to the GPU, latest mesa (25.3.2~kisak1~p), kernel (6.18.1) ā€“ still getting the occasional flicker, especially in firefox.

Iā€™m at my witā€™s end. Anyone had any luck getting this chipset to work? What did you do?

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Update: Thereā€™s a better thread about the specific GPU flickering issue over here: Flickering when using Firefox under KDE Wayland on Ryzen AI 300 - #38 by Sleeping_bird ā€“ sounds like they are hopeful they can work around it in the driver.

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There is a report of underflow going on. I donā€™t have the link handy at the moment, but you can try to turn off memory self refresh using the amdgpu dcdebugmask and then try visiting a website that is tickling it.

If that helps then there is a potential patch to extend the timing of hysterisis loop by a few microseconds which is reported by several people to help.