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Display freeze while updating nvidia driver (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/pop_os

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I have a Dell Precision laptop with an nvidia GPU, today for the second time I've experienced a freeze while updating drivers. This also happened to me the last time a driver update was published. The display just froze and I couldn't do anything, though it seemed it was just the display dying because I had some Youtube video playing at the time and the audio kept running. Tried to switch to another TTY and that froze too before I could login. I just left it alone for a few mintues, hoping it's still running the upgrade in the background, then forced a cold boot and the laptop came up normally. I didn't look for any logs or traces so don't really have more info.

I'm running Wayland, not sure if it's relevant/related.

Wondering if this is a known issue or if other people seen it. If it is known, anything I should do to avoid it?

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[–] tmjaea 5 points 1 year ago

I had the same problem on my desktop PC (thanks, Nvidia!). I helped myself by adding "; sudo shutdown -r now" after the driver update command.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if it is a known issue, but in general, Pop does not support NVIDIA with Wayland. In fact, that is one of the primary reasons why Pop still uses Xorg by default.

It might be inconvenient, but perhaps try to switch to Xorg whenever you do an upgrade that involves GPU drivers and see if that avoids the freeze. Not an ideal workaround, but it could tell you if the issue is Wayland specific or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Worth a try. I should probably switch back to X11 anyway since Slack screen sharing is broken on Wayland for quite some time and it doesn't look like they're gonna fix it.