Framework 16 Ryzen AI + KDE/Plasma + Brave = frequent gpu faults [video][reproduction]

Framework Laptop 16
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Hey folks!

I’ve seen plenty of complains on gpu page faults during various activities - most prominent were browsing and gaming. I’m experiencing those myself and I keep trying to get some help from someone more fluent in handling this kind of failures. I filed a bug on amdgpu and mesa bug tracking lists, but no luck.

FWIW I tried various kernel and various mesa versions - no luck:

  • kernels starting 6.16 up to newest 6.18
  • mesa starting 25.2 series up to freshly released 26.0

I’m having Framework 16 w/o dGPU, Ryzen AI edition (reported model name is AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M, just to be precise).

Personally I’m experiencing those hangs while browsing with Brave. I use Arch, but I just checked and repro is deadly simple on Fedora. I’d really appreciate if someone frustrated like me (or just someone who has spare few minutes) could try this on your laptop:

I always start from just hammering “right” button after clicking on the first photo, just to pre-buffer few first pictures. Then I start sliding them slowly back and forth to trigger the slide/blend effect. In 90% of cases it triggers within first minute, the longest it took for me was around 3 minutes.

See the video that presents the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhP8yATWm-A (at the end of the video you’ll notice previous gpu fault - this was second attempt for needs of the video).

FWIW I believe that the common part of the problem is KDE/Plasma, Wayland + Brave/Chromium based browser.

Amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault - Display freezing in Ubuntu 25.10
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This problem could be related to Amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault - Display freezing in Ubuntu 25.10, both Brave and Chrome use Chromium. Try turning off hardware acceleration

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Yes, I haven’t elaborate on this, but it would work. This is a horrible workaround that makes the experience much worse, especially on larger screens where CPU has much more to process.

Similarly forcing Vulkan as rendering backend (in other words using radv instead of radeonsi) works, but Brave then doesn’t render videos. So also not solution.

Thanks for pointing out the thread, I missed it.

Edit: oh awesome - in the linked thread someone has pointed out some experimental kernel patches that may help. I’ll give them a shot and will report back.

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I’m not currently experiencing this issue because I’m using Librewolf, but I think I encountered this same issue on my system when I tried to use Brave (and gave up). Fedora 43, RX 7700s, Plasma 6+ (wayland) is what I was using. Brave just wouldn’t open/show much more than a white screen for me at the time, this could’ve been as much as a year ago by now though.

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Checked the patches proposed by AMD team and they don’t help. They address screen freeze, not page faults.

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Could you try downgrading intel-firmware package? I had similar issues when using linux-firmware-20260110. Downgraded to 20251125_p20251229 and it seems to be fine last 4 days.

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This laptop doesn’t have Intel components whatsoever. You may refer to buggy amd firmware which was giving the same symptoms, but this is not it - I’m having stable versions of the firmware (so average distro / livecd).

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Sorry, not intel firmware, linux-firmware. Last one-two releases are buggy and cause hard crashes. There are similar topics here.

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Yes, this was my first assumption also. I’m pretty confident that I have this sorted out, but gonna double check to be sure.

Fedora livecd surely had older firmware though.

Thanks for chiming in.