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wirefiend

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Registered: 2022-06-24

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] NVIDIA Screen Freeze

I know this is a common issue, but I am not finding a solution that works for my case. Whenever I run startx, the display freezes. I can still SSH in and kill the Xorg process (only with SIGKILL) and when I do, I get the terminal back but what I type does not appear. I can run exit and return to the login prompt at which point everything returns to normal. I'm not sure what all information to supply, so

journalctl -b --no-pager

https://termbin.com/m9he

cat .xinitrc

https://termbin.com/9zg7a

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

https://termbin.com/zom27

cat .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

https://termbin.com/6bjw

I have become aware that in this boot I forgot to add the NVIDIA DRM kernel parameter, but the problem still happens when I do have it. I will be rebooting and adding that presently.

EDIT
As per this link found on another issue, adding the kernel parameter ibt=off fixed the issue.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kern … issues/256

Last edited by wirefiend (2022-06-24 17:43:45)

wirefiend

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Registered: 2022-06-24

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA Screen Freeze

I just saw that NVIDIA has a current issue which does show up in my systemd journal. I'll try other free drivers until this is resolved.