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[SOLVED] Terrible screen-tear while loading ISO on laptop

I am trying to install artix on my laptop. But I face this terrible screen tear when I boot up the live ISO.



The same ISO works fine when I use it on other machines. Is it a hardware issue?

Specs:

- CPU: Intel i5 7th gen
- SSD: 1TB SATA
- RAM: 8GB

Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Re: Terrible screen-tear while loading ISO on laptop

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Polterguist

BTW - the one thing you would need to know here is the screen and the graphic card...specifically

Re: Terrible screen-tear while loading ISO on laptop

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@nous I read through the link you shared and also this. But I do not understand how I could edit the kernel parameters while loading my live ISO to install artix. If you have any link or guide for it, please share it.

@mrbrklyn The screen is capable of 1920x1080 (default) and has an AMD GPU.
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Re: Terrible screen-tear while loading ISO on laptop

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In the GRUB boot menu screen, press <E> and use the cursor keys to move at the end of the line that reads 'linux /boot/vmlinuz-something'.

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Quote from: Anaximenes – on
I am trying to install artix on my laptop. But I face this terrible screen tear when I boot up the live ISO.
I had this exact problem on my laptop and I reported this problem before on this forum.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,7222.0.html
Quote from: Anaximenes – on
The screen is capable of 1920x1080 (default) and has an AMD GPU.
I guess this problem only affects devices that have an AMD GPU which is kinda sad and ironic considering the fact that most people in the FOSS community say that Linux works best when you have an AMD GPU! I think this problem exists due to an incompatibility between the amdgpu driver and the mainline kernel.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/amd-gpu-glitches-with-kernel-6-11/171197
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1irytmu/driver_issues_kernel_611_amd/
I tested the live environment of many distros and most of them either used the LTS kernel in their Live ISOs or used another stable kernel like 6.8.x. I love Artix Linux and I respect the decisions of the Artix Linux team but I think it would have been better to ship the graphical Artix Linux ISOs with a more stable kernel that works on most devices.
Anyway, to solve the problem you should either disable the discrete AMD GPU in your UEFI or you should boot into the live environment with the nomodeset kernel parameter and then perform the installation. After you installed Artix Linux, then install linux-lts on your system and use that instead of the mainline kernel.