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dafrizz

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Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 31

Nvidia, blank/garbled screen after resume

Hi,

I am running a mythth/kodi frontend that is connected via hdmi to a Sony LCD TV (via a Yamaha receiver)

My graphics card is a NVIDIA GPU GeForce 210 (current driver version 340.76-12)

Since the last couple of nvidia driver updates I am experiencing two issues:

1. I turn the TV off, leave the front end running, turn the TV back on. All I get is a blank screen. I had this issue before and it seemed like an hdmi issues. Switching to a different input in the receiver and then back to the right input solved this in the past. Not anymore since I did a driver update. The screen stays blank

2. When I suspend the frontend and resume the screen only displays a garbled image. Killing and restarting X solves this issue, but that's not really a convenient workaround.

My xorg.conf

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 334.21  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-16)  Thu Feb 27 14:37:03 PST 2014

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option 	"Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Any help would be much appreciated. Please let me know if there is any other information I should post.

Last edited by dafrizz (2015-07-17 03:34:22)

sesese9

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From: California, United States

Registered: 2015-04-01

Posts: 75

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Re: Nvidia, blank/garbled screen after resume

You said that you have a 210? The 35x branch is not the current beach for your card. Check the Arch Wiki Nvidia page but I believe that 340 branch is the correct branch for your card.

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dafrizz

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Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 31

Re: Nvidia, blank/garbled screen after resume

Oops, my bad, posted the wrong driver version.

The driver I have installed is nvidia-340xx, version 340.76-12

dafrizz

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Registered: 2011-05-27

Posts: 31

Re: Nvidia, blank/garbled screen after resume

Am I the only one having issues with this ?

Any ideas what might be causing this ?

Any help would be much appreciated, as this currently prevents me from keeping my machine up to date. Thank you.