Screen flickering on Arch

Framework Laptop 12 Linux
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I’ve got an issue with screen flickering using Arch Linux. I suspect its related to the graphics driver in some way.

I’ve tried both the i915 and the xe driver. I’ve also tried almost every combination of the enable_psr, enable_dc, enable_guc, psr_safest_params, enable_psr2_sel_fetch driver options. Intel graphics - ArchWiki

I’m using the latest version of Arch, with Linux 6.15.4-arch2-1

The flickering is very intermittent, I’m using gnome shell and the flickering only rarely happens, but if I hibernate the flickering then kicks up. I tried out plasma for a bit and for some reason it triggers the flickering immediately.

The flickering once triggered to happen intensely can only be fixed with a clean reboot.

Any ideas of what else to try is appreciated.

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That is odd. I’m using Plasma (wayland) without issue. lsmod tells me both i915 and xe are loaded, but xe is used by 0 and i915 is used by ~60.
I have a default install, plus plasma-meta, and sddm enabled.

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Same here, i915 and xe are loaded, using plasma on last arch kernel version and I have no issue. I think you should try to take a video of the issue and open a support ticket.

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I got this issue as well this week. I’m using Fedora 42. I never had this issue before (Since I received my framework 13 2025 in may).

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Here is a video of the flickering. flickering with Arch Linux on Framework laptop 12 - Album on Imgur

@technick since you mentioned it only happening recently, I tried other versions of the kernel but didn’t have any luck. I tried 6.1, 6.6, and 6.12, but they all still had the issue for me.

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Happened today for a few seconds — exactly like in your video. I will look a little more through the log file.