AMD GPU with MESA driver show artifacts in Youtube videos

DeMus · September 13, 2026, 11:28am

Hi,
after having used 2 different versions of Fedora (Fedora KDE and Kinoite) in the last 4 years or so, I have now installed Tumbleweed again which I used before those 4 years. There is some getting used to it since Fedora, especially Kinoite, does things a bit different. But that will be okay.

I write since I have the same issue which I had in Kinoite: when playing Youtube video’s I get artifacts in the picture, meaning I see vertical lines which not only divide the picture but also have different shades of colors on either side. On the Fedora forum are a couple of threads about this and the general idea is MESA version number. I use the flatpak version of Brave and in there I see MESA version 26.1.6. Version 26.1.8 should apparently have cured the issue for several people, although others still claim this is not the case. I can’t remember the website but I have seen versions 26.2.x already.

Because flatpaks can’t use system installed drivers, the 26.1.6 must be installed in the flatpak. I asked at Flathub but they don’t package Brave and at Brave they also told me they don’t do it. Still I installed Brave from Flathub as a flatpak.
Who else can do the packaging?

The artifacts I am talking about look like this:

Especially at the bottom you see the darker park with a vertical line on both sides.
Sometimes it is the full height of the video, then only small parts of it.

inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 7.2.4-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.2.0
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260910
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82RG v: Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76461 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_82RG_BU_idea_FM_Legion 5
    Pro 16ARH7H Firmware: UEFI vendor: LENOVO v: JUCN68WW date: 12/05/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 55.9 Wh (79%) condition: 70.8/80 Wh (88.5%) volts: 16.36
    min: 15.44 model: Celxpert L21C4PC1 serial: <filter> charging:
    status: not charging cycles: 187
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
    serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1587 min/max: 404/4787 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1587
    2: 1587 3: 1587 4: 1587 5: 1587 6: 1587 7: 1587 8: 1587 9: 1587 10: 1587
    11: 1587 12: 1587 13: 1587 14: 1587 15: 1587 16: 1587 bogomips: 102213
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
    active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-7,DP-8,eDP-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2560
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M]
    vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6,
    Writeback-1 bus-ID: 34:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1681 temp: 38.0 C
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.24 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.13
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,nvidia dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu,nouveau
    d-rect: 5120x1600 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: Philips 27M1C5500V
    res: 2560x1440 hz: 120 dpi: 109 diag: 685mm (27")
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: right model: BOE Display 0x0a9b res: 2560x1600
    hz: 165 dpi: 189 diag: 406mm (16")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi inactive: device-0
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.2.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 680M (radeonsi rembrandt ACO DRM
    3.64 7.2.4-1-default) device-ID: 1002:1681 display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.357 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:1681 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 34:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 34:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 34:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  API: ALSA v: k7.2.4-1-default status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 4000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Bluetooth 5.2 Adapter [MediaTek MT7922]
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 0489:e0d8
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
    lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 604.91 GiB (63.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL2
    size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 39.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 28.87 GiB used: 5.56 GiB (19.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 4.99 GiB used: 227.1 MiB (4.4%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 903.86 GiB used: 599.13 GiB (66.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.1 C mobo: 39.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.81 GiB used: 5.9 GiB (39.8%)
  Processes: 381 Power: uptime: 6h 27m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 261
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 46
    Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.3.15 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.41

I have not installed the Nvidia driver (like in Fedora) and hope I don’t have to do that here as well. Laptop is much quieter without it.

Questions:
Are there any openSUSE users who see the same kind of artifacts?
Who can explain, and please in simple terms, what (which software) can cause this and who takes care of this? I was told it is MESA but I just have to believe that since I have no clue about software internals.

Thank you for your help.

hui · September 13, 2026, 12:13pm

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279434

DeMus · September 13, 2026, 1:32pm

Thank you @hui
I have read the page you linked to and also followed a link in that page but I have no idea what I am reading. I think this issue is not fixed yet, right? Who should fix it? I read it’s a kernel regression, but also MESA 26.1.6 is faulty. What to do now? Simply wait?

myswtest · September 13, 2026, 7:45pm

Possibly. You should boot to a previous snapshot and see if issue exists there.
Incorrect (works here, zero issues)

All YouTube video work here in Brave (Flatpak) 1.95.101, Chromium: 153.0.8010.37, with MESA 26.1.6

From ‘brave://gpu/’ output:

(GPU0: VENDOR= 0x8086 [Google Inc. (Intel)], 
DEVICE=0x3ea0 [ANGLE (Intel, Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2), 
OpenGL 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.1.6 (git-ffa422e53d))], 
DRIVER_VENDOR=Mesa, DRIVER_VERSION=26.1.6 *ACTIVE* )

knurpht · September 13, 2026, 10:05pm

This is since the Brave flatpak uses the Mesa runtime from flathub. Which does not have the openSUSE limitation(s).

dza · September 14, 2026, 4:23am

You could install kernel-longterm meanwhile and see how that works.

DeMus · September 16, 2026, 9:46am

No, on Intel CPU/GPU it works, it is only with AMD system that problems occur.

DeMus · September 16, 2026, 9:53am

Thank you all for your replies. The subject can be closed now since I have moved back to Fedora Kinoite, not the F44 release but the beta of F45 with a newer kernel (7.2.5-300), a newer MESA (26.2.2) and probably more new stuff. I have now zero problems with it, it all runs great.
Another reason why I wanted to return to Kinoite is that it is faster than Tumbleweed. Faster in the sense that it opens programs just a bit faster, booting is faster and I like the way Kinoite is setup: a base OS with a DE (KDE) and flatpaks. That’s all I need. I did use Tumbleweed with the same flatpaks, kept my home folder during installation and flatpaks are installed with the --user option in the home folder.

Again, thanks for the answers with the tips. Maybe till later.