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Hello Everyone,
I have Archlinux installation on a Core I7 machine with NVIDIA 1080Ti GPU and 16GB RAM.
I have installed nvidia drivers.
I encounter frequent system freezes, especially while working on graphics applications.
Sometimes the mouse pointer is displayed and can be moved around.
But clicks and keyboard entries don't work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Is this a complete system freeze or is it just X11 that hangs?
Still being able to move the cursor would hint at the latter.
See if you're able to switch to a different TTY with CTRL+ALT+F*.
Dmesg, journalctl or X11 log could contain traces of this problem, if not the cause of it.
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Thank you @Irets.
Yes, it looks like only X11 hangs, because I can open another terminal (ctrl-alt-F2).
That's how I reboot the system and come out of the freeze.
I will look into the log files you suggested.
Any pointer about how and what to look for would be greatly welcome.
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In journalctl, there are quite a few messages: "The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?".
Does anyone know what this means and could it be related to the system freeze?
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Arch NVIDIA Wiki page contains a warning: As of October 2020, the NVIDIA driver does not support the Linux kernel 5.9. (Possibly explains something).
You can of course try older branch of drivers (if your card is supported by it) and see if it helps. I think the Wiki contains all necessary help for the installation.
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@euromatlox
Then I will switch to the lts kernel.
Thank you!
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It seems that the warning about kernel 5.9 has been just recently removed. So I suppose it should be ok with NVIDIA now. For the basic usage I have noticed nothing extraordinary with GT710 graphics card on my desktop using 5.9 kernel. Might be card/chip/usage specific if problems, WIKI contains some information, SLI etc.
Last edited by euromatlox (2020-11-10 20:37:57)
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