Whenever amdgpu.ko is insmoded, the display (or the system itself in some cases) is unstable. When it works great now, one day it won’t and the machine will inexplicably start crashing randomly or displaying garbage after an update.
This has held true for years for me on many machines I’ve installed Linux on, and it still does: not a week ago, I updated a laptop with a Renoir chipset in it (RX Vega 6) that had been stable for years, and now the display gets corrupted whenever I switch VT. Because amdgpu…
Not bashing on AMD or Nvidia. This has just been my reality. As a result, whenever I have a choice, I go with Intel graphics because it never causes me as much of a headache.
Intel graphics has issues of its own, especially on laptops. Whatever power saving features Intel managed to add to their Windows drivers need to be turned off on Linux or it’ll cause weird issues or even physical damage (in one particularly nasty bug where the Intel driver made the backlight strobe).
In my experience, amdgpu has been fine, though I’ve only used it on an older laptop. This only ever caused problems for me on Ubuntu (with its old kernels), things became a lot more stable when I switched it over to Manjaro.
If you can consistently get the display to corrupt, you should report the bug with your distro. There’s a good chance this is a regression of some kind that can be patched.
All I need to know about AMD is this:
Whenever amdgpu.ko is insmoded, the display (or the system itself in some cases) is unstable. When it works great now, one day it won’t and the machine will inexplicably start crashing randomly or displaying garbage after an update.
This has held true for years for me on many machines I’ve installed Linux on, and it still does: not a week ago, I updated a laptop with a Renoir chipset in it (RX Vega 6) that had been stable for years, and now the display gets corrupted whenever I switch VT. Because amdgpu…
Not bashing on AMD or Nvidia. This has just been my reality. As a result, whenever I have a choice, I go with Intel graphics because it never causes me as much of a headache.
Intel graphics has issues of its own, especially on laptops. Whatever power saving features Intel managed to add to their Windows drivers need to be turned off on Linux or it’ll cause weird issues or even physical damage (in one particularly nasty bug where the Intel driver made the backlight strobe).
In my experience, amdgpu has been fine, though I’ve only used it on an older laptop. This only ever caused problems for me on Ubuntu (with its old kernels), things became a lot more stable when I switched it over to Manjaro.
If you can consistently get the display to corrupt, you should report the bug with your distro. There’s a good chance this is a regression of some kind that can be patched.