I tried all the different nvidia variants (dkms, vanilla, lts), and all had this same behaviour. When logged in, the external screen stays black. I’ve to move my mouse on it so it refreshes, then it will refresh everytime I move my mouse on the screen; it won’t (ever) otherwise. Downgrading every …

@smelenius I am not sure because I have an intel cpu with an integrated gpu… I have the followingkernel modules loaded at boot: initrd=\intel-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=PARTUUID=95178145-acb0-47b4-9736-1bf36d5dfdbb zswap.enabled=0 rw ibt=off intel_pstate=no_hwp rootfstype=ext4 Lon…

We were able to reproduce issue locally, will investigate and update further on it. Thanks everyone for all the help and patience. Meanwhile, please help to confirm if issue is reproducible in your end if you use the Xorg’s ‘modesetting’ driver instead of the ‘amdgpu’ driver for the AMD iGPU?

Thanks for helping us! I am a developer and I miss my second screen. Really appreciate the help.

You’re likely using the ‘intel’ driver. You can check with ‘xrandr --listproviders’: if it lists ‘Intel’ along with ‘NVIDIA-G0’, then you do. If so, you can configure Xorg to use ‘modesetting’ instead which I believe will likely sidestep the problem for you until the fix propagates to a public rele…

Just wanted to report that I’m experiencing the same issue when I have any additional monitors connected to my Intel integrated device. I do have the intel driver running per my xrandr command. I’m also experiencing any external drivers freezing (per another post I commented on) and whenever I att…

Same behaviour here. AMD Ryzen 7 with GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, Fedora 38 and Xorg. Wayland didn’t show any problem. Driver version: 530.41.03-1. Xorg didn’t have an xorg.conf file before upgrading form F37 to F38, and so was after the upgrade. When using nvidia-xconfig to generate a new xorg.con…

Hey, just wanted to let you know, if I turn on modesetting, then my second monitor just stays black and does not even pick up in my display settings. I will rather just wait for the update before I break something…

could you guys please post debug logs? will try this later, thanks »»»»»»»»»» If you have a problem, PLEASE read this first ««««««««««

After reinstalling a new flavor of Endeavour I am again experiencing this issue haha 2 monitors attached to my Lenovo laptop, about 10-20 minutes after playing Diluvian Winds everything freezes except for the mouse. Can’t switch into TTY. Nothing works except holding the power button to force shuto…

still happens in 535.43.02 (installed from gentoo repository). now using 525.116.04

[530.41.03] External monitor stays frozen until I move my mouse

Graphics / Linux Linux

amrits July 12, 2023, 10:08am 51

It should be pretty soon but I can not confirm the exact timeline.
I will update on forum thread thread once it is publicly available.

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[530.41.03] External monitor stays frozen until I move my mouse

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