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cerberus1746

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Registered: 2023-03-09

Posts: 4

Second screen freezes from time to time

Hello, I am facing an odd issue, from time to time my second screen, and only second screen, randomly freezes. connecting and disconnecting the hdmi tends to solve it, but it happens so often that it makes annoying.

Some outputs:

~ ❯ neofetch                                                                                                                                                                              10s
                   -`                    leandrobg@leandro-note 
                  .o+`                   ---------------------- 
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Host: Alienware 15 R2 1.2.15 
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 6.2.2-arch2-1 
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 2 hours, 49 mins 
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1038 (pacman) 
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: zsh 5.9 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 1920x1080, 2560x1080 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Xfce 4.18 
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: Xfwm4 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         WM Theme: vacui 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Theme: Adwaita [GTK2], Raleigh [GTK3] 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Icons: Adwaita [GTK2], breeze [GTK3] 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     Terminal Font: Monospace 12 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    CPU: Intel i5-6300HQ (4) @ 3.200GHz 
 `++:.                           `-/+/   GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 
 .`                                 `/   GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530 
                                         Memory: 8953MiB / 15863MiB

~ ❯ pacman -Q | grep linux
archlinux-appstream-data-pamac 1:20230220-1
archlinux-keyring 20230225-1
lib32-util-linux 2.38.1-1
linux 6.2.6.arch1-1
linux-api-headers 6.1.9-1
linux-firmware 20230210.bf4115c-1
linux-firmware-whence 20230210.bf4115c-1
linux-lts 6.1.19-1
util-linux 2.38.1-3
util-linux-libs 2.38.1-3

~ ❯ pacman -Qqs nvidia
cuda
egl-wayland
lib32-libvdpau
lib32-nvidia-utils
libvdpau
nvidia
nvidia-lts
nvidia-prime
nvidia-utils
opencl-nvidia

Thu Mar 16 13:02:38 2023       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.89.02    Driver Version: 525.89.02    CUDA Version: 12.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   44C    P0    17W /  70W |    598MiB /  2048MiB |     12%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       393      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                      86MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     56032      G   /usr/lib/firefox/firefox           20MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     61840    C+G   ...r/2021.3.8f1/Editor/Unity      482MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The application that seems to freeze the most the second monitor is Unity, also I am using prime-run for it.

The problem seems to happen when using either linux-lts or current version. Unsure if the nvidia-lts activates automatically when kernel changes to linux-lts tho

silagonevermind

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Registered: 2023-12-21

Posts: 1

Re: Second screen freezes from time to time

Looks like switching to wayland with a modeset enabled solves the issue