Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro random crashes with hardware acceleration

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello everyone,

I just installed EndeavourOS yesterday and have really enjoyed it, until it began crashing randomly. After some debugging I have found the issue to be with hardware acceleration. I turned it off both on my browser (Zen) and terminal emulator (kitty) and I haven’t crashed since. I had also experienced issues with crashes on my last distro (fedora, cinnamon), which is why I assume this is a hardware issue.

I have a Samsung Galaxy book4 pro and have had installed a second drive (Samsung 990 EVO Plus intern SSD 1TB), which is where my EndeavourOS lives.

I have checked the arch wiki and it doesn’t seem to be a known issue with my model (Keep in mind I have the none 360 version): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Samsung

Here are my system details and logs:

It isn’t the biggest issue in the world, as I can just turn it off, but I would like for it to work.

Thanks in advance, sincerely Roni

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The issue seems to have been resolved. I recently tried turning on hardware acceleration again and I have not crashed yet. Potentially new software updates have fixed the issue for me. I will mark this as solved for now.

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The issue sadly reappeared last night as I crashed while watching YouTube with hardware acceleration turned on. I have now decided to switch graphics driver from i915 to Xe graphics driver, as the driver does support meteor lake. It has worked so far without issues and seems to also have a small performance boost for my specific model: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-mtl-i915-xe-linux.