Ever since updating to Fedora 42, the display has been consistently locking up every so often; sometimes as quickly as 10mins into booting, sometimes as long as an hour. I saw AI 300 Display locking up incessantly with Fedora 42 Xfce – however, that references Xfce/X11, and the fixes from that thread don’t fix GNOME under Wayland.
I’m using an AMD 7040-series Framework 13. Swapping to the KDE Plasma desktop seems to “fix” things in the sense that I haven’t seen the display lock up, but it seems like GNOME is still broken.
There’s a thread on the Fedora forums in which a maintainer hopes that a more-recent kernel fixes lockups: Consistent screen freezes after upgrading to F42 - Fedora Discussion
However, I updated to the more-recent kernel version suggested in that thread, and it didn’t fix anything.
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FYI, as I mentioned in some other threads, switching to X11-based GNOME works (although X11-based GNOME doesn’t have touch gestures, so it’s not an ideal downgrade). This seems to be a bug with GNOME 48 on Wayland, possibly due to updated AMD drivers.
Other Wayland-based DEs work such as KDE and COSMIC, so it’s not simply a Wayland problem: there’s something more complicated happening.
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I’m just here to say that I’m having the same problem, I only just upgraded to fedora 42 a month ago. For me, it only started happening when it woke up from sleep (workaround, awake or shut down) Now it freezes up instantly regardless.
I also dock my laptop, and noticed this problem doesn’t exist at all on external monitors. Even with the lid open, the laptop screen will freeze but the external monitors still work. I also suppose i should note that it only freezes in gnome, not gdm.
I’ll have to try switching to x11 in the meantime. Or just switch to debian, lol. I just figured initially that I’d stick with Fedora bc its official.
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I con confirm I have the same issue running fedora 42 on a FW13 with AMD 7040 and the 120Hz panel. When I was running fedora 40 the laptop screen would sporadically freeze after locking the system while being connected to an external monitor, but the external monitor would remain functional. After upgrading to f42 the screen freezes after locks and recently it does so immediately after logging in, rendering it pretty much unusable (forcing me to write this from windows lol).
I recently updated bios and drivers hoping they would fix the problem to no avail.