When the first beta 550 came out I was testing the driver and the laptop sometimes froze randomly. I didn’t know what was causing it until I went back to the 545 drivers and it was fixed. I thought it would be a problem because they were beta but no. It also happens to me with the stable version. When this happens to me, the laptop freezes and the “caps lock” light keeps flashing. (Watch video) [NVIDIA 550 freezes] I think it may be due to some change with the systemd services added in version 550 because that is when it happens the most. It has already happened to me twice when I am updating the system and it breaks it because the update cannot be completed. In the video it happens when the specific hooks are being processed (reloading system manager configuration). When I recovered the system I reviewed the logs and I did not see anything referring to the nvidia driver. So I can only provide the nvidia-bug-report with version 545. To add something else, it also happened to me the other day when I was testing the nvidia-powerd service. I had the service running with a game open and I tried stopping/starting it and the laptop froze the same way. That’s why I associate it with systemd. I also think it has happened to me sometimes with the desktop computer with manjaro, although I can’t be sure because I use the laptop more. System: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64 ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA507XI_FA507XI 1.0 Kernel: 6.7.7-arch1-1 Plasma 5.27.10 CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile Driver: 550.54.14 Nvidia bug report version 545: nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (4.2 MB)

We have fixed a memory corruption issue specific to notebooks recently and request you to please test with driver 550.107.02 and share test results. https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/550.107.02/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.107.02.run

New Nvidia driver 550.78 released: Fixed a regression that led to Xid errors when loading the NVIDIA driver on some notebook systems with RTX 4xxx series GPUs Dont know if its going to fix this issue here.

I will stick to 535.171.04 and kernel 6.8.7, it works great.

They haven’t solved it. Nvidia 550.xx drivers cause kernel panic on my laptop with rtx 3050.

Hi All, The freeze issue which I observed locally on my setup has a different stack which has been reported here. I have tried repro since then on couple of systems for few days where I tried updating packages followed by multiple reboots/logouts but not observed freeze issue. Would appreciate if anyone has reliable repro steps for the freeze issue. Also, for isolation purpose, can someone please try below steps and confirm if solves the issue. Add"zswap.enabled=0" and “numa=off” to the kernel parameter Changed the nvidia to nvidia-open-dkms

Hello @amrits, regarding the freezing i myself cannot tell if its somehow related to the kernel panics too that have been laid out here in this discussion too, my example here just in photo though…, since in my case the system when powering off would at times trigger in panic rendering completely frozen, and so unable to even use REISUB. Ever since adding “amdgpu.vm_update_mode=3 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x4” kernel parameters i have not had kernel panics (so far), but i just wanted to ask like, has this been observed too?

as @bakabo8 pointed out, I tried the 550.78 (open) drivers . Those fixed the issue(s) for me! (4050, gentoo, hwprobe, emerge --info) What I tested: Boot with “default” commandline/kernelsettings nvidia-smi works now. Didn’t work with closed 550.76 drivers, as the module(s) failed to work correctly (didn’t test without uvm, as @demensdeum suggested, as this has drawbacks). Turning on pci debugging showed some errors related to vulkaninfo/eglinfo blocking? (on 550.76 closed) I’d guess this is why nvidia-smi or other applications were stuck. dmesg 550.76-closed at 18:03:45 prime-run valheim max settings, no dlss@1080p (~55 avg fps, no huge drops in starting area) didn’t see any issues in a quick test nvidia/pci power management seems to finally work again, going to D3COLD when dGPU is not in use. It didn’t work reliable at all on 550.xx yet for me, so I downgraded to “stable” 535.171.04(closed) suspend also works in combination with acpi_osi=! "acpi_osi=Windows 2015" bootparameter ("Windows 2015" is correct for me, you need to lookup yours). I sadly can’t remember, but either on 550.76-open/closed or 535.171-open the first suspend (with dGPU locked in D0 after resume) succeeded and the second to third suspend resulted in a kernel panic. (for reproducing). However: lots of warnings due to nvidia-open 0x0[dot]st/XHek.txt glxgears has strange output ibb[dot]co/2tKYRgy will do some more testing/benchmarking, but I will probably downgrade to 535.xx-closed again for now. edit: Not fixed for nvidia-550.78-closed. What works on closed: Boot->startx->nvidia-smi I’m not sure about initial pci power state. What didn’t work on closed: starting valheim as before(gets stuck), starting nvidia-smi after this again(now stuck, not responding, ctrl+c not working) dmesg 550.78-closed (similar to above 550.76 dmesg) - I guess you can reproduce it with other directx/vulkan/3d applications/games that utilize the dGPU by prime-run /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status remains active edit: shutdown. System was stuck on ending user processes. SysRq r+e+i didn’t solve it either. Had to SysRq s+u+b in order to reboot forcefully. edit2: SysRq + o didn’t shutdown the system, I had to press power key for 10 sec. edit: numa=off didn’t change anything as it seems (compared to above 550.78-closed run). bpa[dot]st/MGCA ps.: nvidia-smi does not show “X” as application anymore, not sure if this is 550.xx, or xorg related.

In my use case on my Lenovo Legion 5 I needed the nvidia-open-dkms(as I use custom kernel) and “amdgpu.vm_update_mode=3 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x4” in order to resolve the problems entirely.

Not sure if we do discuss several different but similar 550.xx related 3xxx 4xxx laptop issues here, as I’m not experiencing the same random freeze as in initial post. Gentoo irc/devs linked me to this thread and said it’s related. For completion to my previous report I added all of the above amdgpu.vm_update_mode=3 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x4 zswap.enabled=0 numa=off , but they didn’t change my issues on 550.78-closed or 550.78-open.

Series 550 freezes laptop

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jc81 April 26, 2024, 7:46am 107

The nvidia-open-dkms solved for me the random freezes and the system runs stable with them now. But I cannot uses suspend with them. X11 doesn’t come up again. When I try to reboot, systemd says that nvidia-suspence is blocking that.
I am using NixOS, not Arch (because it seems like everyone else in here uses Arch or an Arch-based distro).

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