Hello! I have been suffering from this problem for about six months: every day at the end of the day I put the computer to sleep mode. The next day (although this is reproduced in 100% of cases immediately) I turn on the computer and I have two black screens with a cursor (I have two monitors). So…

Also getting this issue. This is the only bug report I’ve been able to find on Google with the same symptoms as myself, including the approximate timeframe. Currently have a 4060 GPU but same thing happened with a 3060, and I also have two monitors. System is up to date as of yesterday. Running X11;…

I will add my observations: I set the system setting so that after sleep mode I am greeted by ssdm with a password entry. Now after turning on the computer I still have two black screens with a cursor, but I press ESC, the monitors turn off, after that I either move the mouse or press any key to wak…

Hi All, I have filed a bug 5064730 internally for tracking purpose. I will try internally to duplicate issue locally which will help us to debug issue further. Shall get back if required any additional information.

While we investigate this bug, you may be able to work around it by setting the vblank_sem_control kernel module parameter for nvidia_modeset.ko to 0. E.g., in an /etc/modprobe.d/ file, add the line: options nvidia_modeset vblank_sem_control=0 It would help us to know whether that avoids the prob…

Hello! I added the setting to the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power-management.conf file, rebooted the PC, checked the sleep mode and exit from it 3 times - it works great! Thank you! Even though this is a temporary solution, it saves my time and nerves a lot. Actually, I switched to sleep mode for a r…

Thanks for performing the vblank_sem_control=0 experiment. That will help focus our debugging. The HDMI monitor detection bug is too bad: does the detection differ if the HDMI monitor is powered on or not at the time the PC boots? Monitor detection has become much more fragile in recent years, wi…

Wow, here I thought I was the only one with this bug, or maybe it was hardware related since I have a fairly old build. FWIW, if you have this issue and don’t feel like waiting around X minutes to see if the system comes back, I noticed that the system does respond to keyboard shortcuts. So I create…

Hello, I’m also having the same issue (dual monitor, rtx 3080Ti on dell computer), opensuse TW and nvidia proprietary driver. 570.124.04 This issue (black screen, with only mouse cursor) appeared after I set : options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp …

Yeeeesss! This worked for me on openSUSE Tumbleweed, T1200 Laptop GPU, driver version 570.133.07: Added this line to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf: options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0

Black screen with cursor after sleep

Graphics / Linux Linux

jonathan190 April 22, 2025, 2:21am 16

I just installed version 570.144 and although it does now seem to resume (after what seems like a very long delay) it then no longer functions properly. Scrolling in a firefox window is very slow. I’m no expert but my guess would be acceleration has stopped working. I put the vblank_sem_control=0 back in and it seems to be good again.

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Black screen with cursor after sleep

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