Hi all, Not sure if this is a distro specific, DE specific, a monitor brand specific or just linux/AMD in general. So, I have an RX580 GPU. It is an older one, but does just for what I do on my PC (emulation). Everything works fine until I start one of the emulators and play a game. I have two 27" 4k monitors, a dell and a sceptre. Once the game starts, the sceptre monitor starts going black every couple of seconds, then comes back up. This continues until I stop the game. Both monitors are connected through DP to the GPU. Not sure what to do, to be honest. All drivers are there when I checked (as far as I know). This happens on both wayland and xorg. Any input is greatly appreciated! If anyone needs more info, please let me know. Thank you
System is:
Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.5-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: A520I AC System Version: -CF
Is it only when playing this specific game, or do you have that in general, like when playing Steam games or modeling something in Blender?
For me it sounds like a hardware issue. The GPU is pretty old (age-wise, ignoring performance). Some electronics will degrade over some time and just stop working. That’s my guess.
Also, two 4k-monitors sounds like torture for a card like this :D
Maybe install/ live-USB a completely other distro on a second drive and replicate this situation. Use default Ubuntu, Mint or Fedora, they have a different DE/ compositor and some other different underlying stuff.
If everything works fine, you know it’s probably KDE, and if you have the same issues, it’s a hardware problem and you have to repair/ replace something.
Don’t forget to update me on this situation :)