My PC will sometimes lock up, mostly when playing games but not always, (it happens rarely, but for example also when the computer just booted and I launch Discord or Firefox) then the screen goes black, and then I get visuals back but the colors are extremely distorted or I just see weird patterns.
My GPU is a Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 590 8GD5 Special Edition
I can find some messages using journalctl that seem connected to the problem, for example:
[drm:amdgpu_dm_commit_planes [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Waiting for fences timed out!
[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring sdma1 timeout, signaled seq=20638, emitted seq=20640
[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process pid 0 thread pid 0
amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
The third line sometimes differs (sometimes it lists another process like a game I'm playing or Firefox) but the earliest error always seems to be Waiting for fences timed out.
What I've tried based on other reports of instable GPUs similar to mine (though none exactly the same):
- More recent Mesa version using the Oibaf PPA.
- More recent Kernel (5.17.1) using Tuxinvader PPA
- GPU drivers from the AMD website, which seem to pull from their own PPA
- Kernel argument
amdgpu.runpm=0
