Hey everyone! Just installed Zorin 17 on my HP Pavilion 14 plus laptop and the experience has been almost enjoyable. The biggest pain point currently is the constant screen glitching and artifacting. I "believe" that it's caused by my integrated gpu (Radeon 780m) but it's almost random when it occurs.
After a reboot, everything is fine for about 15 minutes. 120hz refresh rate is smooth, animations play correctly, and of course no glitches. However, after that time things start going south. It's the most noticeably when just moving an application window around, but it even happens when only the mouse is moving!
I've also tried grabbing the latest kernel, switching to XORG on login screen, rebooting, and reinstalling the OS. I always heard people praise AMD for their excellent linux drivers, but man this has not been a great experience.
Here is my inxi -ga as well. Also have attached some screenshots so others can see what I'm talking about. Thanks for the support guys!
My bios is up to date. I grabbed the latest one from HP's tool a while ago. As for gpu throttling? It's possible but i doubt it. I'm doing very light usage tasks, writing emails, documents, music streaming, etc. Nothing that would be taxing the gpu.
Hey there! I don't have fractional scaling active, and I have tried with lower refresh rates. It's stable for a little bit until the glitches start back up again.
Yup. I have issues on both kernels. I'm beginning to slowly come to the realization that maybe my laptop is "too new" for linux.
I tried zorin on another laptop with the same chipset and it worked perfectly. The only difference was the display types. Mine is an OLED 120HZ panel and the other device had a run of the mill, ips 60 hz one.
The panel's EDID is probably not supported yet on Zorin or something. It's the only thing I can think of that makes sense.
You could test it with the new Linux Mint Version 22. There You have the Ubuntu 24 LTS Base. You could test if this works better with Your Display. Or use Ubuntu 24 LTS directly for test it
I wouldn't think that this is a Kernel-CPU Problem. With the 6.10 Kernel it should run I guess.
