Framework 13 AMD Hard Crashing Issue

[forresthopkinsa]

I’ve been having similar hard crashes but it turns out to have been due to GPU.

Amdgpu crashes and artifacts with Mesa 25, kernel 6.13

I’m using opensuse tumbleweed (KDE Plasma + Wayland), and the last week or so has been painful in terms of GPU instabilities. Sometimes the entire UI freezes for a few seconds (I’m on Plasma), sometimes blocky artifacts appear here and there, or on the entire screen. I’m on kernel 6.13.4-1-default (opensuse’s) and kernel-firmware-amdgpu 20250219 Luckily I have snapshots, so now I reverted back to 6.13.3-1-default and amdgpu firmware 20250206. Here is an excerpt from my journal: Feb 28 13:17…