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Lancisman

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Registered: 2025-07-23

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Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

I have an RTX 3060 Ti GPU. And after updating my Nvidia driver from version 580.82.09 to 580.95.05, my GPU randomly stops sending signal to my monitor. Having high GPU usage seems to to trigger this issue more consistently, however it still happens with low usage. Even after updating from 580.95.05 to 580.105.08 this still happens. I am using KDE Plasma, with a fully up-to date system.

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p2271584
580.105.08 was supposed to fix HDMI related issues w/ 580.95.05 but rather introduced more/others
=> is this HDMI at all?

GPU randomly stops sending signal to my monitor. Having high GPU usage seems to to trigger this issue more

Are there any traces of this in the system journal?

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Lancisman

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

No, I am not using HDMI. I am using DisplayPort. Is there any way to downgrade the driver to make sure it's the driver causing issues?

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … le_Support
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/nvidia-dkms/
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/nvidia-utils/ needs to match that version.

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Lancisman

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

The driver package I am using is nvidia-open. Using the AUR package called "downgrade" to downgrade the needed packages to version 580.82.09 seemed to have fixed the issue. However another issue occured with that. My refresh rate was locked to 60hz, and anything that really needed my GPU just crashed upon starting it. Also, where do I find the system journal?

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

sudo journalctl -b

To upload it try

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

However another issue occured with that. My refresh rate was locked to 60hz, and anything that really needed my GPU just crashed upon starting it

Sounds like you're running on the simpledrm device, using nvidia-open-dkms is mandatory, the nvidia-open version is linked to the kernel it was compiled for.

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Lancisman

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

Why should I use nvidia-open-dkms instead of nvidia-open? I am using the standard Linux kernel, so the dkms version seems unecessary. Altough I might be wrong.

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

Because you're downgrading it.

using nvidia-open-dkms is mandatory, the nvidia-open version is linked to the kernel it was compiled for

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Lancisman

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

Been using my PC basically all day yesterday and today, without issues, until now. For whatever reason it suddenly stopped happening, and then started again. Unfortunately I could not figure out how to downgrade the driver without weird issues, so I guess i'll have to wait until Nvidia decides to fix this... I have identified the issue is the driver. As with the somewhat buggy downgraded driver this didn't occur. Also, the journal just seems to have logs from my current session, so not particularly helpful.

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

What "weird issues"?
You'll *have* to use the dkms version or downgrade the kernel w/ the driver.

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Lancisman

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

I am unsure if the driver is the issue anymore, as I managed to downgrade to 580.82.07. Which I have used without issues, but the issue remains for some reason. I did get the dkms driver. But I was unable to downgrade further without the same issues, mostly the refresh rate and resolution being locked. I also have a desktop widget called "System Monitor Status" displaying some GPU stats, however with any older driver I am unable to make it display anything.

seth

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Re: Nvidia GPU randomly stops sending signal to monitor

however with any older driver I am unable to make it display anything

You're most likely not using the nvidia driver. Does "nvidia-smi" work?
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and

lspci -k; dkms status; pacman -Qs 'kernel|nvidia'

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