Attn: critical bugs in amdgpu driver included with kernel 6.18.x / 6.19.x!

Found this post while searching for similar issues. I’m not using a Framework laptop, but I’m seeing very similar behavior.

Hardware:
Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Strix Point) with Radeon 890M (gfx1150), 96 GB RAM, Pop!_OS 24.04 (Ubuntu-based), kernel 6.17.x.

Symptoms:

  • Hard system freezes that end in hung_task panic / kernel panic

  • Happens on Wayland (COSMIC & GNOME) and also on Xorg

  • Sometimes the screen fills with purple noise / corruption before crashing

  • After a crash, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stop working until a full power-off

  • Often triggered by browser usage (PDFs, banking sites, GPU-accelerated content)

  • System logs often stop before the freeze; pstore is usually empty

Debugging done (with help from others):

  • Memory test passed (no RAM errors)

  • Tried disabling panel self refresh (PSR)

  • Tried disabling PCIe power saving (ASPM)

  • Tested multiple desktop setups: GNOME and COSMIC, both Wayland and Xorg

  • Removed ROCm / GPU compute stack

  • Tested different AMD firmware versions (both distro default and newer upstream firmware)

  • Noticed occasional AMD GPU memory/page fault messages early after boot

The crashes still happen intermittently, even on Xorg, which suggests this is not compositor-specific.

This looks very similar to the recent amdgpu DCN / DMUB / Strix Point issues discussed here. I don’t have a solution yet, but I wanted to share my findings in case others run into the same problem.

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