Display problems with my AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT PCIe card
by jsbjsb001 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BE0T)
I bought the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT PCIe card for my new desktop PC I recently built, and while it does work, there have been some pretty annoying issues with it.
The Problems:
If I go to something like Google Maps, the display will very likely freeze up completely to the point where I can't even change to another virtual terminal (ie Ctrl+Alt+F2), as the screen is completely frozen. It's virtually guaranteed to happen if I zoom in to fast, in fact every time I zoom in while looking at a map the display freezes up completely.
Another issue is that video playback when using something like VLC can be very choppy. Also if I connect to my wifi access point while playing a video it can (and often does) cause choppy video playback while my machine is connecting to my wifi access point.
There is also the issue of HDMI audio constantly cutting out at regular intervals, if I watch a video and route the audio through HDMI rather than using the onboard audio hardware. The audio does come back after it cuts out, but misses whatever sound there was after it's cut out and cut back in again.
What I've found out through some research I've done about it:
Through some investigations I've done, it seems I'm far from alone and AMD's amdgpu has some issues with the newer Navi based cards, including their Windows driver, not just AMD's Linux driver. So I'm pretty sure it's bugs in the amdgpu driver that are causing my problems. I did find this that describes my problem exactly and mentions the hardware I have (well the 5700 XT, but the 5600 XT I have is pretty much the same, just with less graphics RAM).
My system specs:
Video card: Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT Pulse 6GB
distro: OpenMandriva Lx 4.1
kernel: 5.5.12-desktop-1omv4001
Code:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] (rev ca)
Subsystem: Sapphire Technology Limited Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpuSome things I've tried:
I have tried setting the PCIe version in the BIOS to PCIe 3.0 from the "auto" setting, since the card supports PCIe 4.0, but that didn't change anything. I also tried updating the system BIOS, but that didn't change anything either.
According to the link I posted above regarding the Google Maps/screen freezing problem at least that issue is apparently fixed in kernel 5.6, but no update to the kernel package has been released for OpenMandriva last time I checked. I don't really want to compile the kernel myself and would prefer to use the stock package instead. I have been thinking about changing distro's (and still am) but it's a PITA to have to do that, and the time to do it considering the post-installation stuff I do is an issue as well.
I must say it's pretty disappointing to have these issues with an AMD video card under Linux, since the main reason I bought it was because AMD's drivers for Linux are open-source.
Does anyone know if these issues still exist in kernel 5.6, or have any thoughts about this?
The Problems:
If I go to something like Google Maps, the display will very likely freeze up completely to the point where I can't even change to another virtual terminal (ie Ctrl+Alt+F2), as the screen is completely frozen. It's virtually guaranteed to happen if I zoom in to fast, in fact every time I zoom in while looking at a map the display freezes up completely.
Another issue is that video playback when using something like VLC can be very choppy. Also if I connect to my wifi access point while playing a video it can (and often does) cause choppy video playback while my machine is connecting to my wifi access point.
There is also the issue of HDMI audio constantly cutting out at regular intervals, if I watch a video and route the audio through HDMI rather than using the onboard audio hardware. The audio does come back after it cuts out, but misses whatever sound there was after it's cut out and cut back in again.
What I've found out through some research I've done about it:
Through some investigations I've done, it seems I'm far from alone and AMD's amdgpu has some issues with the newer Navi based cards, including their Windows driver, not just AMD's Linux driver. So I'm pretty sure it's bugs in the amdgpu driver that are causing my problems. I did find this that describes my problem exactly and mentions the hardware I have (well the 5700 XT, but the 5600 XT I have is pretty much the same, just with less graphics RAM).
My system specs:
Video card: Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT Pulse 6GB
distro: OpenMandriva Lx 4.1
kernel: 5.5.12-desktop-1omv4001
Code:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] (rev ca)
Subsystem: Sapphire Technology Limited Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpuSome things I've tried:
I have tried setting the PCIe version in the BIOS to PCIe 3.0 from the "auto" setting, since the card supports PCIe 4.0, but that didn't change anything. I also tried updating the system BIOS, but that didn't change anything either.
According to the link I posted above regarding the Google Maps/screen freezing problem at least that issue is apparently fixed in kernel 5.6, but no update to the kernel package has been released for OpenMandriva last time I checked. I don't really want to compile the kernel myself and would prefer to use the stock package instead. I have been thinking about changing distro's (and still am) but it's a PITA to have to do that, and the time to do it considering the post-installation stuff I do is an issue as well.
I must say it's pretty disappointing to have these issues with an AMD video card under Linux, since the main reason I bought it was because AMD's drivers for Linux are open-source.
Does anyone know if these issues still exist in kernel 5.6, or have any thoughts about this?