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imjustahuman

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Registered: 2024-06-12

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NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

Using NVIDIA Prime via the prime-run command and running a game will cause the entire system to freeze and lock up, the only way to unfreeze is either a forced shutdown or sshing into the system and restarting sddm. I am using the proprietary nvidia drivers and using x11 for my display system and the kde plasma desktop environment. I found some posts about this on Reddit and all of them said that its an issue with the kernel, if that's the case then how am I supposed to fix this problem. Should I use an older kernel version?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

sshing into the system and restarting sddm

means

the entire system to freeze and lock up

isn't true.
Please post your complete system journal for the boot after the crash

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

as well as your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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imjustahuman

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Registered: 2024-06-12

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

The system journal is at http://0x0.st/XcAj.txt and the Xorg log is http://0x0.st/XcA2.txt. Another thing I would like to add is that the mouse worked but nothing else did, not even switching to another tty

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imjustahuman

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Registered: 2024-06-12

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

anybody want to help or is this forum just useless

seth

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

It's now uselesss to you until you realize that you're not the center of the world and other peoples existence doesn't revolve around you.

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imjustahuman

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Registered: 2024-06-12

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

anyway the new kernel fixed the problem so yeh the forum is useless

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

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Re: NVIDIA Prime causes entire system to freeze

With a username like that, you'd think he'd appreciate that we're all humans too.

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