I recently purchased a Dell XPS 13 9340 to replace a broken laptop.
I was able to shrunk the existing Windows 11 partition to accommodate dual booting to Rocky Linux 9
The initial installed version of Rocky (I recall it was at 9.2 and Mesa 22) was working fine, soon after multiple Rocky Linux 9 updates, the display started displaying lots of artefacts especially when the mouse pointer is moving.
I am not a kernel/display driver developer so I am looking for advice.
Is this a known problem that I should just wait for an up coming fix to the Intel Arc display driver in Mesa or wait for newer Mesa version to be released upstream in RedHat/RockyLinux or should I attempt to build and install new Mesa driver that is known to have the issue fixed ?
@InventorX I have given up as I needed to start my development environment setup. FYI it is not a Rocky specific issue though. I tried Ubuntu 24.04 and that screen pixelation also occurs during mouse movement. Only Ubuntu 22.04 with Mesa 23 has no issue with the pixelation.
My current stable arrangement looks like this
1TB for Windows 11
WSL 2 with Alma Linux 9
1TB for Ubuntu 22
I do alot of cross platform development, especially validating software to run on the VFX Reference Platform hence the above gives me the most mileage.
Maybe in a year or two when I upgrade my SSD to 4TB or 8TB and have to reinstall the OSes, I might check out Rocky again to see if the Mesa driver issue is resolved. For now, I am happy to be able to continue developing my software.
That is a shame. I just started having the same issue on Arch, but couldn’t find any bug reports over there. I am currently compiling the current Linux master to see if that changes anything. Thank you for the quick response.
