I’ve also been noticing these graphics anomalies with my RX590 amdgpu not even playing games. I have seen it flash this screen quickly just booting up. I’m not getting any crash because I’m not gaming but I’m sure it would be the same as you are seeing. This has been noticeable in the last few kernels and updates. Mesa? amdgpu? Kernel?
I’m pretty sure it’s closely related to playing hardware accelerated video via va-api (as the bug report mentions and the crash reports indicate so far). I’m able to play games for hours without any issue. If that screen would only flash for a second I would assume some kind of internal “mode” change. So it might be a different issue.
Also it started very recently for me (since 5.13 but also on 5.10 now).
Yes you are probably correct as it flashes quickly although sometime a quick “hang” i would call it. Just flashes and then seems to roll over correctly to the screen it’s displaying.
@Schlaefer
I just wanted to ask one thing about your graphics. Do you have both xf86-video-amdgpu and xf86-video-ati installed? I was just wondering because the ati is not needed. I remember another user had issues and i noticed he had both amdgpu and ati listed in the graphics output from inxi -Ga. When the xf86-video-ati was removed the problem went away.