I just got my new framework 13 and decided to install fedora on it. However after installation my screen started to flicker. I am new to linux so i have no idea where to start to fix this. Help is very much appreciated.
Update: The screen starts behaving normally when i put the brightness at around 90% and above, however lowering it again makes it start again.
I’m experiencing the same on Arch, for me it happens only very rarely and funnily enough activates/deactivates at different mouse cursor positions. I’ll update this comment once I have more information.
I have all the same specs as @Maarten_Verhoeff and am seeing similar behavior during cold boots. I am getting severe flickering at or below 15% brightness but no flickering above 20%. Once I’ve let the display “warm up” for about five minutes I am able to lower the brightness to zero with no flickering at all.
Got my FW 13 AI 7 350 today with the standard display running EndeavourOS and my screen is flickering also. I can make it do it by moving the cursor in certain areas of the screen. Anyone figure this out? I’m hoping my computer isn’t defective.
Since I replaced the mainboard with the AI 340, the laptop’s built-in screen has sometimes flickered. The problem has gone away after a few minutes.
I got into contact with framework support and after some back and forth they concluded that the display has to be replaced. Hoping this will fix it.
I’m having some screen flickers as well. Still working through with support, but didn’t reach any resolution.
Examples:
I’m having the same issue, at brightnessctl setting 55 it starts flickering a little bit and it gets worse the lower i go.
I tried disabling PSR with kernel parameter amdgpu.dcdebugmask=410 but that does not seem to have any effect on this issue
Since my flickering is so sporadically it’s hard to test if any step did resolve my issue. What Framework support told me to try was to enable “Advanced/GPU-Memory = gaming” in the BIOS, I earlier tried to increase the RAM allocated to the GPU from 512M to 8G (I have enough RAM). So far it hasn’t happened, but that might just be a coincidence.
I have the same issue with my new 13 laptop 13 AI 300 with the 2.8k monitor. Works fine above 60% brightness.
When I leave the laptop for 5min and the screen “dims” it happens then too, then back to normal when it “wakes up”.
I didn’t notice until I disconnected the power cable, I suppose it stays full brightness on power.
I can’t fix it despite reinstall of display drivers from both AMD direct, then framework bundle again.
Help. This is unusable.
I have the exact same issue running Win11 on my new laptop. Current bios and updated drivers have not helped.
Did you screen work after it was replaced?
I am still waiting for the replacement. I will give an update on the result when i replaced it.
I’m really disappointed in support, I’ve been going in circles of “try this and try that”, moved to Fedora as officially supported distro. I have completely wiped out entire hard drive 2 times at this point, but support insists that it’s “your installation problem and the fact that you are using unsupported distro” (I’m not using Manjaro already).
They offer no resolution, no replacement, nothing. 
I tried updating to the current driver direct from AMD. No better.
I reinstalled windows (it’s a new PC, I only got it yesterday so I did a clean install). I realised it was working well, until I installed the driver bundle from framework.
So I reverted the the Microsoft basic display adaptor from 21/6/2006 (from within basic windows install).
I seems to be working fine! No refresh rate options, no advanced features, BUT NO FLASHING
There must be a clash somewhere, but I’m leaving it basic for now (hoping framework can diagnose and fix it).
Let me know how you go.
James
I received and installed the new screen, but it unfortunately did not have the desired result.
So what’s the next step, what is Framework telling you? This is concerning.
I switched to EndeavourOS (Arch based) and got some newer packages (updates) including a newer kernel and mine has not flickered in about 4 days now. Fingers crossed.
Yesterday end of day it seemed that the issue was resolved for me, but this morning when i booted my laptop the flickering is back. So it seems related to the monitor “warming up”
@LBTRS Do you get no flicker at all on the lowest brightness? even from cold boot? And which kernel version are you using? Maybe its related to the version of the kernel / the amdgpu module
I mailed them again and they have forwarded my email to their group internally (not totally sure what this means, but lets hope something comes out of it). I might also start to experiment with other distros to check if this fixes it.
I upgraded from a 7040 series to an HX 370, while keeping the same screen, and I never encountered this issue on the 7040 series motherboard. Moreover, it affects both the standard and 2.8K screens, which points to either a software issue or a potential motherboard design flaw and not a problem with the display itself. On Fedora 42, it only happens to me in Firefox, so I’m hoping it’s just a software issue.
EndeavourOS kernel 6.15.2. Have not seen any screen flickering in about 5 days now, although I’m having a couple other annoying issues not related to the screen.