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DiaWorD

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From: St.Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 16

[Lenovo W520][NVIDIA] External monitor freezes after a while

Hi All,

I've got quite strange behavior of Nvidia Q1000M video card:
1) I plug in external monitor (DisplayPort / DVI / VGA)
2) Monitor starts fine, showing some picture
3) After several minutes the picture freezes. X is fine, apps are running, laptop screen is fine.
4) If I unplug the cord or disable monitor in settings, all windows from frozen external monitor move to laptop one.

External monitor can run fine for several minutes, or might freeze after 1 minute or so.

Please, can you help in troubleshooting this?

Googling or skimming through Xorg.0.log did not help

System details:
Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad W520 (Descrete graphics enabled)
Video card: Nvidia Q1000M
Drivers: proprietary, version 313.26-2
Xorg-server version: 1.14.0-2

Thank you all in advance for your time and assistance.
Best Regards,
Dmitry

P.S. Originally posted to Kernel & Hardware, got no replies [ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160399 ]. Sorry for reposting, but looks like I misplaced original post.

Last edited by DiaWorD (2013-04-02 06:45:01)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,768

Re: [Lenovo W520][NVIDIA] External monitor freezes after a while

I closed and binned your other thread.  In the future, please use the 'report' link and leave a note for the moderators with a request to move your thread.  We tend to respond pretty fast.

Thanks

Last edited by ewaller (2013-04-02 23:18:48)

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DiaWorD

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From: St.Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 16

Re: [Lenovo W520][NVIDIA] External monitor freezes after a while

ewaller,

Sure, will do next time (and hopefully, will not need it). Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for effort.

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