Hello, I have a Acer PH18-71 with Intel and RTX4070. When i have an external monitor connected through HDMI and start using the dedicated GPU there is a high chance that the external monitor freezes, everything else is supposedly working since the sound is continuing. I then have to change over to…

Experiencing the same, Im on, OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS x86_64 Host: Katana 17 B13VGK REV:1.0 CPU: 13th Gen Intel i9-13900H (20) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q Nvidia Driver - 535.183.01 Same issue with freeze when on external monitor(s) with one on HDMI and one on USB-c to HDMI, I did an ex…

Oh, no, I forgot to celebrate 1-year birthday of this thread… Dear bug report, I hope Nvidia gods have not forsaken you, and wish you some love from Nvidia support this year… or at lease a confirmation that someone is working on it…

Gonna come here regularly and start opening more tickets around. Let’s see how long they can delay a fix.

Well, they reproduced the issue in January External monitor freezes when using dedicated GPU - #141 by amrits and last time confirmed they working on it in February this year External monitor freezes when using dedicated GPU - #152 by amrits , so spamming tickets is unnecessary at this point… I’m jus…

From this experience I’ve learn that: Unless they open-sourced their drivers completely, I probably won’t be purchasing another NVIDIA. Linux makes up for its small market size by using open source development to ensure security and stability. A business like NVIDIA can clearly afford to lose custo…

Their modules has open source version tho.

Still observing the same behaviour with 550.107.2, X11 1.21.1.11, kernel 6.8.12. What doesn’t work: Resizing glxgears on an external monitor will stutter and freeze when my external monitor is connected to the HDMI output of a USB hub (mBeat 7 In 1 USB-C 3.2 Gen2 - effectively a VIA Labs USB-C Disp…

Bumping this again. Same issue on Manjaro Linux Gnome with NVIDIA driver 550.120 and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q.

External monitor freezes when using dedicated GPU

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stephematician October 17, 2024, 10:39pm 197

Imagine how quickly this could have been resolved in open source, with people like you willing to volunteer their effort to trace the problem ;)

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External monitor freezes when using dedicated GPU

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