Amdgpu instability on Tumbleweed 20240911

[myswtest]

As with my Reply in another thread from months ago (post follows), this is a longshot. At the time, was running TW … since then, we are using Leap 15.6, and the problem persists without the fix.

The issue: random reboots and such. The fix was instant (cured) and have never had another problem.

Anyway, for our AMD CPU and GPU desktop machine, we have to add these two arguments to the GRUB boot line:

amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffbffb   amdgpu.dpm=0

My Reply (to old thread) detail is here, with references to sources where I found the fix:

System freeze/crash, no idea wha's causing it

This is a horrible longshot. I had an issue not long ago, on my all-AMD desktop. It would randomly reboot, though would never freeze, as yours. And I never run YT videos more than 30 or so minutes. I was on the verge on buying a new (miniPC) because I was convinced my aging desktop was just that - too old Anyway, I spent about 8-12 hours intensely researching and came across a somewhat old article, where there is this absolute deeply technical person (name is Rich), who sugg…

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System freeze/crash, no idea wha's causing it

hi everyone, since a few days i’ve been experiencing freezes/crashes on my system, i have no idea what could cause it, but basically after a few hours (around 10 hours of uptime) the system freezes, if any sound was playing, the last 1-2s loops and the whole system stays unresponsive while everything is frozen. i’ve tried checking the previous journalctl but couldn’t find any kernel error. i’ve had no problems before a system update but i cant remember which one triggered this behavior. i’ve…