Primary screen freezing at random

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Seems to be happening at random, whether gaming or just using the browser. Primary screen freezes, but i can still drag windows from it to the secondary screen. When i turn the frozen monitor off and on again, the secondary screen also freezes. (Log is from previous boot without the secondary screen freezing)

inxi -Fxxc0z output:

System:
  Kernel: 6.6.72-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Gaming K4
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.50
    date: 11/05/2018
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1
    cache: L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1550 min/max: 1550/3500 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1550
    2: 1550 3: 1550 4: 1550 5: 1550 6: 1550 7: 1550 8: 1550 9: 1550 10: 1550
    11: 1550 12: 1550 bogomips: 83868
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD107 [GeForce RTX 4060] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 565.77 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
    active: none off: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 26:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2882
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    d-rect: 3280x1845 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-3 pos: top-right model: LG (GoldStar) MP59G res: 1920x1080
    hz: 75 dpi: 81 diag: 690mm (27.2")
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: bottom-l model: Artist15.6Pro res: 1360x765
    hz: 60 dpi: 142 diag: 394mm (15.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm: drv: nvidia
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 565.77 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2
    display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2882
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 26:00.1
    chip-ID: 10de:22be
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 28:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0c76:161e
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.72-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 25:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp37s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 732.46 GiB (52.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 34.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD110 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 109.55 GiB used: 38.79 GiB (35.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 49.3 MiB (51.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.55 GiB used: 4.09 GiB (26.3%)
  Processes: 333 Power: uptime: 54m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: 1152 pm: pacman pkgs: 1141 pm: flatpak pkgs: 11 Compilers:
    gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 13 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37

journalctl -p3 -xb -1 output:

sty 26 15:55:42 hudin-lin kwin_wayland[858]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
sty 26 15:55:47 hudin-lin kwin_wayland[858]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
sty 26 15:55:52 hudin-lin kwin_wayland[858]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
sty 26 15:55:52 hudin-lin kwin_wayland[858]: kwin_libinput: Libinput: event4  - HID 1bcf:08a0 Mouse: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 169ms, your system is too slow
sty 26 15:55:56 hudin-lin kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002600] Flip event timeout on head 1
sty 26 15:55:59 hudin-lin kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002600] Flip event timeout on head 1
sty 26 15:56:00 hudin-lin dbus-broker-launch[683]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
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I’m not the greatest when it comes to nvidia drivers but noticed you use, I would try using first alternative kernel and if not working compare the errror message in WNE through console to try debug, ie look up the error and sort them by most recent (sorry I can not be of more help now and maybe someone else can write this more clearly) (have you tried under x11?)

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Tried researching and a few fixes for similar issues, but none worked for me.

X11 seems to not freeze randomly, though it does freeze easily when doing multiple things, but thats a different issue.

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I had a similar issue on plasma/wayland before installing my nvidia drivers with the “nvidia-inst” command.

I installed the drivers, rebooted and the problem was solved.

Hope it helps.

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Did you find the issue? It is happening to me as well. Primary monitor freezes, but second monitor still works for a few seconds, then freeze after a while or when i try to do anything else.

I also reinstalled nvidia drivers with nvidia-inst, but still happening.

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I’m having the same issue, it starts when I scroll over the brightness icon in the taskbar, right after I updated my system

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