AMDGPU seems to crash my system running an application which uses Vulkan...
by NoComment from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6NDR2)
This is something that let me only guess a possible problem, but... I'm far from being "advanced" enough in Linux to track down the real problem...
I use an AMD machine (Ryzen 9 5950X) with 64GB and a Radeon RX 580 ("Ellesmere") and 2 screens (2560x1440, 3840x2160). My OS is Debian testing (Trixie) and ... a hobby of me is making every now and then electronic music using DAW's and soft synths (still).
Bitwig Studio, until lately my main DAW, got an update, which the first time makes use of Vulkan to make it "more colorful" ( :D no, I don't like it much, but... that's not the issue). The problem is, that Vulkan itself does not cause me issues elsewhere (I usually don't play anything on this machine... so I only used Warzone2100 to find out, if it can make use of Vulkan without errors), like Warzone2100, which works without issues.
Bitwig Studio makes (most likely) the GPU crash my system several seconds after I start the application, this said: My PC shows a Splash Screen of Bitwig Studio, but after some seconds one screen becomes black, the other shows a black area of the size of this Splash Screen (but relocated to the upper left screen edge) and the remaining screen is filled with a pattern of very fine vertical lines... this only shows up for a second or so, then the machine reboots.
Interestingly when rebooting this last screen content (like described above) is visible again and seems to be "removed" with starting X...
I have seen, that Vulkan Mesa drivers currently seem to cause some issues on other systems too and... I've read a notice on their board, that there are some updates on the way shortly (there still was one from V. 24.07 to 24.08 and 24.10 is announced to arrive most likely in June).
But apart from that: Does anyone have heard about such problems?
I ask this "strangely" because I didn't see many questions here regarding music production... and I fear, that hardly anyone else here uses Bitwig Studio (which is originally made for Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu Linux ... or using Flatpaks)... and to add this: Even though this Flatpak was "recommended" I was pretty sure to have a driver/graphics problem (and yes, my system uses the graphics drivers, I have found out). So I tried Flatpak (what I generally don't use - because my experiences with the "native" *.deb packaging system are way better) and the system crashes in the same way.
One additional little detail: Starting Debian with Xfce gives me graphically equal results to the Flatpak, b, this said: Obviously the result (i.e. most likely this error/crash) depends on the DE and - obviously - on most likely something running, running in an "incompatible mode" or not running in conjunction with different DE's.
Any ideas...?
I use an AMD machine (Ryzen 9 5950X) with 64GB and a Radeon RX 580 ("Ellesmere") and 2 screens (2560x1440, 3840x2160). My OS is Debian testing (Trixie) and ... a hobby of me is making every now and then electronic music using DAW's and soft synths (still).
Bitwig Studio, until lately my main DAW, got an update, which the first time makes use of Vulkan to make it "more colorful" ( :D no, I don't like it much, but... that's not the issue). The problem is, that Vulkan itself does not cause me issues elsewhere (I usually don't play anything on this machine... so I only used Warzone2100 to find out, if it can make use of Vulkan without errors), like Warzone2100, which works without issues.
Bitwig Studio makes (most likely) the GPU crash my system several seconds after I start the application, this said: My PC shows a Splash Screen of Bitwig Studio, but after some seconds one screen becomes black, the other shows a black area of the size of this Splash Screen (but relocated to the upper left screen edge) and the remaining screen is filled with a pattern of very fine vertical lines... this only shows up for a second or so, then the machine reboots.
Interestingly when rebooting this last screen content (like described above) is visible again and seems to be "removed" with starting X...
I have seen, that Vulkan Mesa drivers currently seem to cause some issues on other systems too and... I've read a notice on their board, that there are some updates on the way shortly (there still was one from V. 24.07 to 24.08 and 24.10 is announced to arrive most likely in June).
But apart from that: Does anyone have heard about such problems?
I ask this "strangely" because I didn't see many questions here regarding music production... and I fear, that hardly anyone else here uses Bitwig Studio (which is originally made for Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu Linux ... or using Flatpaks)... and to add this: Even though this Flatpak was "recommended" I was pretty sure to have a driver/graphics problem (and yes, my system uses the graphics drivers, I have found out). So I tried Flatpak (what I generally don't use - because my experiences with the "native" *.deb packaging system are way better) and the system crashes in the same way.
One additional little detail: Starting Debian with Xfce gives me graphically equal results to the Flatpak, b, this said: Obviously the result (i.e. most likely this error/crash) depends on the DE and - obviously - on most likely something running, running in an "incompatible mode" or not running in conjunction with different DE's.
Any ideas...?