Earlier this year I purchased the AOC 34" 21:9 1440p 144Hz VA monitor with Freesync Premium and for the last 5 months it has been working flawlessly.
I am running Garuda on Wayland, KDE6 and kernel 9.6 Mainline.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have very strong flicker on the top third of the screen but here were it is weird.
If I disable Freesync the flicker is still there but it is more white compare to the black under Freesync.
Setting the ARR to Always, it stops the strong flicker but there is still a very faint constant flicker covering the whole screen.
Setting the ARR back to Automatic it stops the flicker all together but then it will come back randomly in 1-2 hours or when I restart the PC.
When I am lowering the refresh to 120Hz it is less potent but still there, at 100Hz there are no issues what so ever.
Having plugged another 1440p 144Hz IPS monitor on my PC, I did not have that issue but it doesn’t have Freesync, and I concluded that it was the monitor and I did an RMA.
I have now purchased a Pixio 34" 21:9 1440p 144Hz (165Hz) VA Freesync Premium and I have the same exact problem.
I have tried reinstalling drivers, all packages and searched the internet and tried several solutions but none have worked (most of the issues are nVidia related and I cannot find many issues raised with an AMD setup).
Such as purchasing a VESA certified DP cable, ArchWiki instructions, removing OC profile from GPU and CPU, various settings on the monitor.
I also switched to x11 and I still get the same issues albeit slightly less potent.
To note, I have found a sticky plaster solution; when the PC startup from cold boot, if I change the ARR settings to Always, apply and then change back to Automatic/Never, there is no flicker however I have noticed that the PC will restart if I play a game for more than an hour (I crash to desktop). I have been using the same system and OS for the past 9+ months without issues and these only started in late May.
Any thoughts or guidance will be much appreciated.
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clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-mainline
root=UUID=94b372b7-b3bd-47cf-9e4c-762206fa87f1 rw rootflags=subvol=@
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Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.3.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X470-PRO v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6063 date: 03/13/2023
Battery:
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model: Logitech G703 Wired/Wireless Gaming Mouse type: N/A serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
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L3: 96 MiB desc: 1x96 MiB
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Swap:
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Sensors:
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Info:
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Processes: 373 Power: uptime: 15m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.49 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
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Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 2071 libs: 598
tools: octopi,paru,yay Compilers: clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 14.1.1
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Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2023-12-27
Last full system update: 2024-06-14
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