Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
I poked around the Net a bit here and there, tried a couple different solutions people suggested, but the only thing I managed to change was that the moment I clicked “Sleep”, the image on my monitors would completely freeze (as in: screens on, desktop and applications on full display), and the only solution was to do a hard reboot.
So, basically, I just stopped clicking “Sleep”… :D
Possibly not a “solution” (or workaround rather) you want, but… I just switch all that stuff off.
The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is “many eyes make all bugs shallow”, and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.
Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That’s how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.
What stuff do you switch off? (Did you have this bug previously?)
I tried researching this issue a while ago, it was hard to find anything, but it’s not a bug worth spending any more time on unfortunately since it’s an easy fix whenever it happens.
Wish I was smart enough to contribute hehe, sadly don’t even have the time anyways to sit down and figure it out (someone might already be figuring it out, it’s slowly getting rarer and rarer that the bug occurs, still at least one every other day, though much better than the at least multiple times a day from before).
and/or there may be other ways in guis to do so too.
can put that in some startup shell bobbins, or wherever its supposed to go in configs. but i tend to just run it in terminal (from fish history) once it bothers me enough to switch it off. … am not on my usual computer just now, so i had to look that up. plucked that from 2nd result of a websearch for “x11 noblank off”.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s not, I have something very similar and I have a Radeon.
Robaque@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Probably not even mint-specific since it happens on pop os too
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I had that on Kubuntu, Tuxedo OS and now I have it on Garuda Linux, so yeah.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh interesting, I guess a general bug then.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I poked around the Net a bit here and there, tried a couple different solutions people suggested, but the only thing I managed to change was that the moment I clicked “Sleep”, the image on my monitors would completely freeze (as in: screens on, desktop and applications on full display), and the only solution was to do a hard reboot.
So, basically, I just stopped clicking “Sleep”… :D
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Possibly not a “solution” (or workaround rather) you want, but… I just switch all that stuff off.
The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is “many eyes make all bugs shallow”, and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.
Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That’s how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What stuff do you switch off? (Did you have this bug previously?)
I tried researching this issue a while ago, it was hard to find anything, but it’s not a bug worth spending any more time on unfortunately since it’s an easy fix whenever it happens.
Wish I was smart enough to contribute hehe, sadly don’t even have the time anyways to sit down and figure it out (someone might already be figuring it out, it’s slowly getting rarer and rarer that the bug occurs, still at least one every other day, though much better than the at least multiple times a day from before).
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
stuff like
and/or there may be other ways in guis to do so too.
can put that in some startup shell bobbins, or wherever its supposed to go in configs. but i tend to just run it in terminal (from fish history) once it bothers me enough to switch it off. … am not on my usual computer just now, so i had to look that up. plucked that from 2nd result of a websearch for “x11 noblank off”.