[SOLVED] NVIDIA driver make screen go black when they shouldn't

Hero478 · 2025-09-30 15:05:04

So, since 2 weeks or so my laptop started experiencing the screen going black and the keyboard's backlight turning off a few seconds after opening the lid, no matter what I'm doing, in what it seems to be the OS suspending some things. However, if I interact through any form of input (pressing a key, moving the mouse or touching the touchpad) the system wakes immediately and, also during these "blackouts" some services like bluetooth and speakers continue working. I, in fact, happened to experience a couple of these immediately after playing a video on Youtube, and neither the video stopped nor the bluetooth headphones disconnected.

Output of uname -r is 6.16.8-zen3-1-zen, so I'm using the latest version of the linux-zen kernel, with my DE being Gnome 49 on a Wayland session.

After investigating a while I discovered that the problem lies in either in nvidia-suspend, nvidia-hibernate or nvidia-resume.

What I've tried:
I've successfully disabled all three of those services and the problem seems to disappear. However, as they are responsible for the correct suspension of the GPU, whenever I try to suspend the laptop it wakes up immediately, and when I close the lid it goes in a loop where the lid sensor notices it's closed and tells the system to sleep, but the GPU services interfere with this waking the system, basically suspending and waking it continuously even with the lid closed.
I've also tried installing the nvidia-open-dkms drivers (previously I was using nvidia-dkms) but the problem persists. Nonetheless, the nouveau drivers work flawlessly, but they don't suit my needs since I need to play Steam games.

It's also worth noticing that when I try to re-enable the aforementioned services, the console crashes and doesn't open anymore, and when I reboot the system it gets stuck on a black screen with (what I believe are) the GPU fans spinning uncontrollably, forcing me to power the laptop off by keeping the power button pressed for 10 seconds.

Lastly, journalctl doesn't report anything worth mentioning. To the system everything seems normal.

Last edited by Hero478 (2025-09-30 21:06:02)

seth · 2025-09-30 17:49:52

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2264925
Try to downgrade to systemd 257

Hero478 · 2025-09-30 20:39:02

Will do, thanks. Has the bug already been reported other than on the forum?

seth · 2025-09-30 20:55:53

seth in the other thread wrote:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-se … issues/903 already references this thread

Hero478 · 2025-09-30 21:04:25

Downgrading systemd, systemd-libs and systemd-sysvcompat to version 257.9-1 worked for me. I will try reinstalling the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and see if it still works, but I doubt that there will be further problems, so I'll mark the topic as solved for now

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#1 2025-09-30 15:05:04

[SOLVED] NVIDIA driver make screen go black when they shouldn't

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