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#1 2019-07-06 16:42:28

arjungmenon
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Chrome blacks out after sleep on Plasma with proprietary nvidia driver

Everything works with integrated graphics. (I have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics, and a discrete Nvidia card.)

Today, I decided to start using my Nvidia card instead, and followed the instructions on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nvidia-xrun

Now, after my laptop wakes up from sleep, Chrome is all blacked out. Other applications, including Kate, Konsole, Sublime Text -- are all working fine.

Right now, I handle this by running "killal chrome", and restarting Chrome. Video games are playable only when KDE/Plasma is launched with nvidia-xrun.

(I've tried using Nvidia Prime, Bumblebee switching, etc, but none of it works. Besides, my CPU often gets too hot--so I'd prefer to never use Intel graphics.)

Specs: HP Envy 17t. CPU: Intel i7-8550U (which comes with Intel UHD Graphics 620). GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (the 4 GB model). Display resolution: 4K.

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#2 2019-07-09 14:20:22

arjungmenon
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Re: Chrome blacks out after sleep on Plasma with proprietary nvidia driver

Well, now it works. I didn't do anything to make it work--it just working on its own. Only thing is: I get an error message saying that KWin has crashed, every time my laptop wakes up from sleep. Plus, there are sometimes random artifacts on certain applications--that go away if you force a repaint (by dragging the window, scrolling, etc). For instance, Visual Studio had a splatter of random rainbow colors in the middle of my code. Oh well, I can deal with this.

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#3 2019-07-31 16:45:08

arjungmenon
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Re: Chrome blacks out after sleep on Plasma with proprietary nvidia driver

Sleep breaks KWin randomly, around 2/3 of the time.

I've decided to suffer through it.

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