DE froze with graphic glitches... lots of kernel, drm, and amdgpu entries in journal

[Zesko]

It is the known issue.
Not only VLC, but web browsers Firefox and Vivaldi too when using hardware acceleration.

System frequently crashing after GPU drivers update

I have the same issue now. AMD radeon RX 5700 crashed and froze the whole Desktop after watching Youtube more than 50 min in Vivaldi browser with hardware accelerated. Branch: Manjaro KDE latest version (stable branch) GPU: Radeon RX 5700 Kernel version: 5.14.10-1-MANJARO Mesa version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 21.2.3 Xserver version: X.Org X Server 1.20.13, X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Desktop manager and compositor: KDE Output of journactl -b -1 -p 3 : Okt 17 20:22:31 zesko ke…

System frequently crashing after GPU drivers update

There are many different error-logs for the same issue, they contain plasmashell too, I do not think the plasmashell is fault, but browser with AMD driver is. See my first error log today: Nov 15 08:16:52 zesko kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring vcn_dec timeout, signaled seq=6534, emitted seq=6536 Nov 15 08:16:52 zesko kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process vivaldi-bin pid 2019 thread vivaldi-bi:cs0 pid 2069 Nov 15 08:17:00 zesko…

Working out the cause of system freezes

My system freezes, sometimes a few times a day. There is no obvious pattern that I can see - sometimes the system will freeze while I’m using it, sometimes while I’m AFK, sometimes while the system has been suspended. When the system freezes, usually the keyboard and mouse are no longer powered up, the machine is no longer pingable on the network. I have been checking journalctl -b -1 after these freezes recently, but there is nothing obvious to me there. I have had some hassles with the PCIe …

The similar issue report:

[radeonsi/llvm12/Navi21] Firefox is causing random GPU hangs with ring...

I am waiting for the bugfix Linux Kernel 5.16, if it works.