System Freezing at random, then losing ability to find wifi + other display issues

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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  • Fedora 40
  • Framework 13, Ryzen 7040, 2nd gen display

Experience goes like this:

  • Framework sometimes lags – SERIOUSLY lags, without warning. One movement of the mouse per second. (I have 32 GB of RAM, this should never be a problem.) It doesn’t snap back into place, so I restart.
  • After restart:
  • Resolution of display becomes way too small to read. Display drops to 60 hz instead of default 120 hz (and says resolution of display can’t show 120 hz at all). WiFi doesn’t show – “No network connections” exist. Driver disappeared???

So, three problems in conjunction - I don’t know why it’s doing any of this.

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New issue on top of this – VLC media player suddenly “doesn’t have the codecs” to play movies (H.265 for example) – this obviously isn’t a problem normally. Randomly freezing when trying to open the software and my mouse creates a giant trail.

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It’s likely this amdgpu issue https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3647. See also Fedora KDE becomes suddenly slow

The “amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x200” kernel param workaround works for now.

It’ll likely be fixed in the next linux-firmware release.

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Hi James,

Helpful, thank you. I’m hopeful that the lag issue is fixed. That said, when it appeared, my 120 hz display still only displays at 60 after restart, Network Manager can’t connect to Wifi (“Failed to get secrets for , no reply from agent”), and VLC Media Player suddenly can’t find codecs. I checked the thread you suggested, which found similar problems, but I didn’t see that the workaround fixed it.

Would you happen to know anything about fixing these & other potential issues – just trying to restore it to pre-AMD GPU issue.