Today I experienced what seems to be a very similar crash, on a brand new laptop running Archlinux, Xorg and I3.
I was just using the laptop (Brave, Emacs, terminal, etc), I left it for a minute, when I was back the whole screen froze, mouse and keyboard inputs did nothing, not even ctrl + alt + Fkeys.
Then I ssh into the laptop, looked at the journal and saw the GPU driver crash.
Here are some details about my hardware setup:
Laptop: Lenovo 21RS003NUS
Driver version: 590.48.01
Kernel and driver packages:
- linux 6.19.6.arch1-1
- linux-firmware-nvidia 20260309-1
- nvidia-open 590.48.01-15
- nvidia-settings 590.48.01-1
- nvidia-utils 590.48.01-4
Trigger (according to Gemini): Brave/Chromium hardware acceleration triggered a Context Switch Timeout (Xid 109) which then escalated to a GSP Firmware Crash (Xid 119/120)
Current workaround: creating /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-gsp.conf with the following content:
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
Unfortunately I forgot to run nvidia-bug-report.sh right after the crash, but I did collect the journal logs containing the crash and later run the script.
gpu-crash.log (86.7 KB)
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (511.7 KB)