Graphics Drivers / Mesa help AMD

[clammer]

Currently on Kubuntu 26.04 LTS , installed and only OS, Plasma 6.6.6

I'm on an AMD computer and having what I can only assume are graphics issues- I'm not sure exactly what caused them but I guess either I installed an update that wasn't ready or the program itself updated to become slightly incompatible. A theory I saw is that the graphics card could be dying, but I doubt it since it's fairly new and it only has problems in very specific cases. (I'd rather be optomistic anyway)

I'm getting occasional graphics issues from openGL renderers, and suddenly Deadlock's been stalling after only a couple of minutes of play. Those are the only things I've noticed having problems so far (but that second one could be out of my hands).

Anyway, I've been trying to fix it but I don't understand what to do. I've looked at other help topics and they imply I don't use AMD drivers? I downloaded the .deb from the official website in case I need it but haven't done anything else because these other topics have me confused. I ran glxinfo -B | grep "OpenGL" and Mesa is 26.0.8, which isn't up to date as I checked... running flatpak list | grep Mesa shows it should be 26.2.4 but running flatpak upgrade says "nothing to do." sudo apt upgrade didn't do anything as it was all up to date, allegedly. Also, checking drivers in GUI in driver manager shows "No additional drivers available."

From what I understand Mesa is, itself, a driver for AMD systems using Linux? How would I update it to hopefully fix my problems? Discover also doesn't have a pending Mesa update. Is there anything else I should be doing? Please help, thank you!

[claydoh]

Yes, mesa is the 3D graphics library set used by AMD and Intel graphics, it is not really a driver per se, but for all intents, we can consider it one.

(these libs also being in flathub/snap does make it more confusing -- but these provide a specific library version that a flatpak/snap app might require, so unless you are experiencing issues when using a flatpak or snap app specifically, we can ignore that for the moment)

So, some basics:
Which graphics card do you have?
How long has this been happening?
Can you be more specific about "graphics issues from openGL renderers?"


If this is mostly related to Steam games, have you tried using a different Proton version?
I see many manmy reports on gaming sources that this game frezzes or locks up for a lot of ppeople in recent months, tho most of that involves Nvidia and people on rollin distros


Mesa has not had an update since July, but there was a kernel update about two weeks ago. And there are Proton updates regularly as well.

First thing I'd try is to boot to a previous kernel at your Grub boot menu, and see if that has any effect.