I’m on Manjaro’s stable branch, which recently updated its Nvidia driver to the 530 series. Ever since then my system hangs whenever many (not all) fullscreen games launch. The display stops updating altogether, and input doesn’t affect the screen (though as far as I can tell, input is still being h…

any fullscreen xwayland game or app i open will crash the driver leaving me unable to move my mouse, keyboard or even change tty’s. tested games = half life 1, ftl, system shock enhanced, cruelty squad, kenshi (sometimes?). all of these games work in windowed or if applied the workaround above in th…

seems to be fixed with 535.86.05-2.

spoke too soon, keeps happening under certain circumstances. sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn’t.

@hmpfkafka Is it still happening as per the steps outlined by you earlier ?

yup, except some games work and some don’t. for example dishonored, death to spies, thief gold work with 0 problems, but half life 1 and celeste crash the video driver.

I am also still experiencing this on Arch, driver version 535.86.05, linux 6.4.2 with a GTX 1060. I can consistently reproduce this by opening DaVinci Resolve (which fullscreens).

I have filed a bug internally 4218400 for tracking purpose. However I am still struggling to achieve local repro. Will try latest recommended steps and update further on it.

Installed fresh Manjaro Linux 23.0.0 on my test system and can reproduce issue locally where launching game “Satisfactory” in full screen mode completely hang display (black color). However, when I switched to latest driver 535.86.05, I no longer reproduce issue while launching game “Satisfactory”. …

I tried another game DOOMEternal and was able to repro issue with driver 530.41.03. However, when I upgraded it to 535.86.05, I am not seeing any display hang and game runs fine. @Orion-JM Can you try with latest driver 535.86.05 and share test results.

I am now running the 535.86.05 driver and got this hang yesterday running https://theforceengine.github.io fullscreen. Disabling direct scanout still works as a workaround.

"Failed to apply atomic modeset" + display hang on fullscreen game launch with 530.41.03, 1070 GTX, Wayland, Gnome 43.4, Manjaro

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vladstelmahovsky November 7, 2023, 6:59pm 30

I can confirm this on x11 as well
Lenovo P1 gen6 with RTX Ada 2000

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"Failed to apply atomic modeset" + display hang on fullscreen game launch with 530.41.03, 1070 GTX, Wayland, Gnome 43.4, Manjaro

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