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Laptop recommendations? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Gonzako@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Hi!

I'm in the market for a new laptop and I'd like to consult with the community about what's being recommended on the year 2026.

This is a laptop that I intend to use for both playing games and using as a mobile coding platform so battery and horsepower are the main points that I'd take into consideration, prioritising battery power.

I do not care if it's otherwise bulky.

I am currently encountering issues with AMD hardware on my main machine so just having a guarantee that the hardware is not gonna flop on me would be a big plus.

All in all! Thanks for giving my post a read and any answer would be appreciated, specially in the 900€ range.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is a new issue that started after an update and downgrading everything I could didn’t fix it.

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I don't know if buying a new laptop is necessary to resolve that. I don't know if this is the same problem, but I was just in a discussion with someone who said that he had had instability on RDNA3-based cards (I don't know what distro) on kernels above 6.12.

Someone else responded saying that they were fine on Arch, on kernel 6.18, IIRC.

I also use an RDNA 3 card on my desktop (an XT 7900 XTX, on 6.12.48+deb13, Debian trixie's current kernel) and haven't had problems.

You might just try installing a 6.12 kernel and seeing if the problem goes away, if whatever you're hitting is whatever that guy is hitting.

EDIT: Yeah, looks like Arch is currently on Linux 6.18.2.

The discussion in question:

https://lemmy.today/post/45004502/21377977

And he said that he was on 6.18.2.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went to the LTS version and it didn't really go away. I found that the issue seems to be worked on in here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4765 which is very similar to what I'm having

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm. If you don't mind sharing, when you hit the problem, were you concurrently running a video game and an LLM on the card? That seems to be what the guy there was doing.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope, just running the game. But I am running kde with a lot of fancy shit on and I'm switching kernels around and they all have the same issue. I might need to do my own issue. Tried, 6.18-zen,6.17-hardened, 6.12-lts. I'll try a few more kernels tomorrow but I'm a bit stumped

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hmm. Kinda a long shot, but if it's easy to reproduce and you're looking for switches to try throwing, the amdgpu driver does have a number of options.

$ /sbin/modinfo -p amdgpu

Might try rebooting, and at GRUB, editing the kernel command line, and disabling some features, seeing if things magically go away.

Like, the bug report there is talking about some ring timeout. Maybe irrelevant, but could try amdgpu.async_gfx_ring=0 on the kernel command line.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hey, posted the issue! Got moved to to the mesa issue board. Here's the issue if you're curious https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14617

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Greatly appreciated! I'll give it a shot and build that issue on the amd issue tracker.