Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here's What's New

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I'm still on 6.6. 6.7 onwards (including 6.8-rc7) caused flickering and crashes with VRR enabled after waking up from standby on my Radeon 7800 XT. I'll check out the final version, but I doubt this is fixed.

I don't think I have this on the latest 6.8 RC. I have one of the RDNA 3 dedicated cards as well. Hope they get it resolved either way.

If helps in the meantime, I think you can often TTY switch in order to restart the display signal. Ctrl + Alt + F3/F4 should get you a new console. Then switch back to your desktop with Ctrl + Alt + F1/F2 (the right one may depend on your distro).

This gets my display fixed when it gets any kind of funky 99% of the time. Sometimes it takes a few tries

Thanks for the suggestion, but the system eventually crashes and automatically restarts.

That flickering, is it only on Wayland? I'm on 6.7 and have flickering on Wayland but not X11.

Yes. Fedora 39, KDE Plasma 5, Wayland, VRR on dual displays.