Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I also went with an AMD APU, and had driver crashes for a long time when I was in video calls and it had to decode multiple streams. That thankfully stabilized with Linux 6.4.
Since sooo many people in the community swear by AMD, I thought “dammit, let’s try it again for my new desktop” and got an 7800rx … and I have to reboot ~5 times until I finally make it to a running xserver or wayland session. Apparently I am hit by this problem (at least I hope so). But that doesn’t even read nice … the fix seems to be to revert another fix for powermanagement. So I either have a mostly non-booting card or suboptimal power management.
I start to regret having chosen AMD … again :-/ I seem to be cursed.
EDIT: Tentative solution: CoreCtrl
CoreCtrl allowed me to underclock my Radeon 5600XT GPU (currently set values to GPU 800MHz and memory set to 500MHz). I say “tentative” because this problem has been persistent for years, but I’ve been running Cyberpunk for 1 hour at 60FPS on High settings (and mostly 60FPS on Ultra, but I had some FPS drops). Even if this solution isn’t 100% perfect, I think some combination of changing the GPU values is probably going to make my rig much more functional.
I found CoreCtrl based on a Reddit thread last night but didn’t have time to test it until this evening after work. Seems to have made a world of a difference.
Yeah I’ve tried just about every feasible kernel parameter for
amdgpumodule, updated my kernel, to 6.2 on Linux Mint, and I’ve tried several different BIOS settings. My system runs everything reasonably. Even Cyberpunk 2077 is generally at 60FPS. But after about 5minutes of gaming on Cyberpunk 2077, it crashes. Other games last longer, which is why I use Cyberpunk 2077 to stress test my system.These are my system specs:
I don’t really see where I might be going wrong here. I bought this all ~4 years ago and I’ve always had these intermittent crashes. It’s admittedly worse on Linux, but it still occurred on Windows.
Anyways, I spent about 5 hours last night reading bug forums, testing various amdgpu mod parameters, settings in my BIOS, and even re-configuring my fans to provide (potentially) more optimal cooling. None of this really made a difference. I run two 1080p monitors (not exactly breaking the bank here). I had a lot of hope regarding one forum about
ring gfx_1.0.0 errorsrelated to how AMD reads the GPU in Linux. My graphics card is detected as:Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]and apparently some machines used to accidentally use the total allocated memory for 5700XT instead of the 5600XT. This resulted in some form of corrupt memory allocation. That sort of behavior would make sense for my system since it runs well, but just fails suddenly.Other errors I’ve seen are:
Feb 04 20:17:01 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=116669, emitted seq=116671 Feb 04 20:17:01 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 3668 thread redDispatcher12 pid 3684 ... Feb 04 20:26:16 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=34068, emitted seq=34071 Feb 04 20:26:16 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 4208 thread redDispatcher13 pid 4232 Feb 04 20:26:17 computer kernel: [drm:do_aquire_global_lock.isra.0 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:77:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out ... Feb 04 21:00:43 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring comp_1.3.0 timeout, signaled seq=3085, emitted seq=3086 Feb 04 21:00:43 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 3771 thread redDispatcher8 pid 3783 ... Feb 04 22:28:50 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_device_ip_early_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block failed -19 Feb 04 22:28:50 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_device_ip_early_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block failed -19 Feb 04 22:36:57 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=171774, emitted seq=171776 Feb 04 22:36:57 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 4122 thread redDispatcher5 pid 4131 ... Feb 04 22:45:46 computer kernel: [drm:do_aquire_global_lock.isra.0 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:77:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out Feb 04 22:45:56 computer kernel: [drm:do_aquire_global_lock.isra.0 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:80:crtc-1] hw_done or flip_done timed out Feb 04 22:46:19 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring comp_1.1.0 timeout, signaled seq=123, emitted seq=124 Feb 04 22:46:19 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 4187 thread redDispatcher8 pid 4202 ... Feb 04 23:49:45 computer kernel: [drm:gfx_v10_0_priv_reg_irq [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Illegal register access in command stream Feb 04 23:49:45 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=435155, emitted seq=435157 Feb 04 23:49:45 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 3668 thread redDispatcher12 pid 3690 ... Feb 04 23:58:58 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=66268, emitted seq=66270 Feb 04 23:58:58 computer kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process GameThread pid 4180 thread redDispatcher11 pid 4196 Feb 04 23:58:58 computer kernel: [drm:do_aquire_global_lock.isra.0 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:77:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out^ These are all errors which occurred from various tests of
amdgpumodule settings and/or BIOS settings. The common thread is some form ofring XXXX timeout.These two threads seemed like my best chance, but their proposed solutions didn’t help: