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 :)
I think the GPU is old, but it works no issue. It's very powerful and has no issue running these two monitors. Some other folks said it could be due to the compositor on kde directing all of its attention to the monitor here the game is. Also, I switched to HDMI on the monitor and now the issue is much, much better.