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Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm still on 6.6. 6.7 onwards (including 6.8-rc7) caused flickering and crashes with VRR enabled after waking up from standby on my Radeon 7800 XT. I'll check out the final version, but I doubt this is fixed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think I have this on the latest 6.8 RC. I have one of the RDNA 3 dedicated cards as well. Hope they get it resolved either way.

If helps in the meantime, I think you can often TTY switch in order to restart the display signal. Ctrl + Alt + F3/F4 should get you a new console. Then switch back to your desktop with Ctrl + Alt + F1/F2 (the right one may depend on your distro).

This gets my display fixed when it gets any kind of funky 99% of the time. Sometimes it takes a few tries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion, but the system eventually crashes and automatically restarts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Usually the desktop is on Ctrl+Alt+F7

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That flickering, is it only on Wayland? I'm on 6.7 and have flickering on Wayland but not X11.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yes. Fedora 39, KDE Plasma 5, Wayland, VRR on dual displays.