I’m just recently started seeing some strange screen anomalies (pics below).
This happens on both the built-in laptop screen and on external monitors.
The distortion sometimes follows windows (I’m using KDE plasma), though if I resize a window, they get cleared, and sometimes dragging another window over it, it sticks around and distorts the new window as well.
It’s happening on multiple apps, at least vivaldi web browser, wezterm terminal, and slack.
I just did a full update (sudo zypper up -y; sudo zypper dup -y), and have restarted several times with the issue persisting. Is this a hardware issue, could it be a kernel / software issue?
Did you mean to do both of these things? I’ve just updated the BIOS, and haven’t seen the problem again. Maybe that was enough? I’m currently looking into how to downgrade mesa on opensuse, I will report back.
Howdy there, if you’re still having trouble with this I’d be happy to help. You should be able to downgrade Mesa with dnf downgrade mesa. If you have Steam installed, you may also have 32-bit mesa packages that will need to be uninstalled using dnf remove mesa-dri-drivers.i686. Of course, exercise caution, create a backup before doing anything that might make it difficult to otherwise access your important files and data. I’ll be keeping tabs on this thread so if you run into any trouble, I should notice and be able to offer more help.
There is another solution than downgrading Mesa. You can install kernel-longterm (make sure to switch to it during boot) and this should fix the problem.