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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia

  It’s not, I have something very similar and I have a Radeon.

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  • Robaque@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably not even mint-specific since it happens on pop os too

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I had that on Kubuntu, Tuxedo OS and now I have it on Garuda Linux, so yeah.

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  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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      • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lol thats a good solution.

        I haven’t seen anything like that happen to me luckily, I can sleep fine, but on wake it’s a black screen with my cursor (luckily² this is recoverable without rebooting).

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      stuff like

      xset s off
      xset -dpms
      xset s noblank
      

      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”.

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