FW12 Display Flickering

Framework Laptop 12
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I just gave up on fixing it because I’ve been through many months of this shit with them. I don’t think they’ll ever fix this. Fortunately for me the machine is mostly still usable but goddamn is it hard to watch certain shows on it.

Framework support kinda feels like talking with a chat bot that doesn’t remember anything from more than a message ago.

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Have you been able to stop the flickering by disabling VRR?

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Disabling Adaptive sync on KDE plasma did not fix it. To my knowledge VVR is the same thing as Adaptive sync only for HDMI instead of display port.

I’ve already tried everything with support and nothing was fixed.

I’m pretty sure this is a problem with specifically KDE plasma on Fedora combined with Framework’s custom display.

I don’t expect it to be fixed because the problem is too niche and doesn’t effect enough people. I’ll just live with it until I get some time to switch to a different distro or DE.

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Unfortunate, my friend. Currently I am running niri window manager with DankMaterialShell not on fw12, but on Macbook Air and it’s really polished. I heard that niri is the best touch supported wayland compositor out there. Maybe you could look into it? Cheers

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Thanks homie, I will. <3

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My FW12 isn’t here yet so I can’t try this myself, but I’ve been following this topic since I was planning on running KDE.

I found this on a Reddit post and was wondering if it could potentially help with the issue, as the OP specifically calls out turning off the Adaptive Sync setting not fully turning off VRR:

This will disable VRR for your first monitor kscreen-doctor output.1.vrrpolicy.never You can confirm it what’s set with kscreen-doctor -o | grep Vrr

Or switch to a tty before logging into Plasma Wayland and edit ~/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json to replace any instance of "vrrPolicy": "Automatic", with"vrrPolicy": "Never",

Source: Reddit - The heart of the internet

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My Framework 12 arrived today and after installing Fedora 43 KDE I found that the Adaptive Sync setting was disabled by default and the above VRR policy was also set to Never by default. I haven’t encountered any flickering yet through trying out various streaming videos, but I’ve also only had this for less than a day so far haha.

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Mine doesn’t flicker with streaming videos. It’s almost exclusively local full screen videos which is how I watch pretty much everything.