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Plasma/Wayland unstable on an AMD APU

17 April 2023, 11:37:04

AMD APU Zen2 Lucienne-G R4750G with 48GB SoDiMM DDR4
With Artix being installed and run an BtrFS partition on Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD 1.82TiB with heatsink
KDE Plasma v5.27.4
Qt v5.15.9
KDE frameworks v5.105.0
Linux kernel 6.2.6-artix1-1
(Which commands to check for Wayland version?)
Trinity R14.0.13 (Never crashes)
XFCE R4.15.x (Never crashes)
(Not tested for Plasma/X11, but if doesn't crash that often then Wayland is to be blamed for being not that ready on AMD APU's )

Never Trinity or XFCE crashes so unlikely h/w fault, but too usually Plasma/Wayland is that way mcuh unstable
Every time Plasma/Wayland gets into a crash, frozen and has to reboot always, unable to even get into tty

Re: Plasma/Wayland unstable on an AMD APU

Reply #1 – 17 April 2023, 16:02:51

Crashing is one thing, but freezing is something that suggests something wrong on the driver level. Either way, your best bet is to report these things to plasma and mesa.

Re: Plasma/Wayland unstable on an AMD APU

Reply #2 – 19 April 2023, 13:57:42

I also left an SDDM log for this week like that (KDE doesn't officially pays attention)

Re: Plasma/Wayland unstable on an AMD APU

Reply #3 – 21 April 2023, 16:05:25

When at the log in manager hit

CTRL+ALT+F1

Once at the command prompt log in using your credentials

Then type in

Code: [Select]

startplasma-x11

KDE should start

This way we can at least weed out whether it is a wayland problem or not.