I recently bought a Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ 4 GB GDDR5 and I'm using the amdgpu drivers on ArchLinux with xmonad.

Unfortunately the entire screen flashes randomly, usually correlated with clicking the mouse button in chrome. Enabling TearFree makes no difference, disabling the hardware cursor makes no difference.

I do not wish to use amdgpupro, for ethical reasons.

I can perform more diagnostics if needed, but I appreciate that this is a very difficult to reproduce problem so my hopes of a solution are low...


Version / info dumps:

xf86-video-amdgpu 18.0.1

4.15.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 21 15:14:56 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~ sudo lshw -C video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: e7
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
       resources: irq:123 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:ef400000-ef43ffff memory:c0000-dffff


~ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf 
Section "Device"
        Identifier "AMD"
        Driver "amdgpu"
        Option "SWcursor" "on"
        Option "DRI" "3"
        Option "TearFree" "on"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection


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