Wayland multi-monitor screen freeze

Help
,
1

Right now wayland multi-monitor is working mostly except this one intermittent issue. Sometimes one of my 3 monitors freezes. I can still right click the app icon on another monitor and move an app off the frozen screen to a non-frozen screen, but I can’t do anything with that monitor. I noticed this happens sometimes when I am playing games. That could be unrelated because that is what I do most the time on the computer now. I did notice though once Firefox crashes sometimes the screen will come back unfrozen. So not really sure where the issue comes from.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.11.11-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: X670E AORUS PRO X
System Version: -CF

nvidia-smi
Tue Dec 31 11:21:50 2024
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |
|-----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | Off |
| 36% 30C P0 50W / 450W | 3024MiB / 24564MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

2

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s one of about a million known bugs in the driver. We’re a year or two away from working nvidia drivers yet.

The workaround is to switch to a TTY (ctrl+alt+F*) and back.

2 Likes
3

Hey that is somethin. Thanks for the work around info.

1 Like
4

You may check if you get a

kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug

message at the syslog like i still occasionally do with such freezes (not even actively using my 4070 when that happens, so I can not really blame that driver).

5

Just tried that supposedly workaround and I can NOT recommend it as it caused everything to lockup and I had to force shutdown my Computer. Not recommended at all

What always worked for me was logout and back in.

6

My apologies, I read that trick elsewhere and it has worked for several people including myself and yours is the first problem I heard of it. It’s a bit quicker and easier than log out/in but next time, I’ll recommend people try it safely to be sure they don’t have this problem.