I have just updated my laptop (NVIDIA) and now every ten minutes my screen goes blank. I have done the following but still it continues to shut off. I got fed up and disconnected the damn thing and put it up but wonder if anyone else was having issues.
What I have done
Turned off power manager, Screen Lock, Screen Saver xset s off xset -dpms
and the last time I had this issue with openbox I put xset s off in the xinitrc file. However every ten minutes of inactivity and it still goes blank. The laptop was plugged in at the time.
Yeah I don’t know I just know if enabled it goes off if disabled it still goes off. I’m gunshy now for updating my openbox wondering if I am going to have the same issue. If I do I know I can rule out an Nvidia issue but again I would rather not end up with an issue that will drive me crazy’er. Since its the laptop I could just shut it off and put it back up but the desktop however is another story.
Not sure if its normal behavior I’m assuming it is but I am getting a device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 about every minute so far.
actually after watching it, it is doing it every thirty seconds
Well while typing the above the screen went black I get nothing but the above message on screen with Upower. It doesn’t show any event happening with the monitor just the battery. Which is plugged in I’ll unplug and see if it gives me anything.
pulled out my other laptop also running xfce but not updated to the latest kernel. Nor does it have nvidia. The device change message in Upower seems to be standand as I get it with that laptop as well. I just used it the other day and the screen never went off so I have a way to test if it is Nvidia related since this one doesn’t have an Nvidia card in it but an intel one.
Unfortunately Upower is not displaying any useful information that could help resolve the issue
Its only showing the device change but when the screen goes blank it registers nothing. So I’m not sure what the issue is.
Also note the Screen turns off rather the laptop is plugged in or not. I will get the other laptop updated and see if it happens on that one as well. I’ll report back about that later.
So this seems to be only affecting my Laptop with NVIDIA. The other one is still on after 15 minutes. I had both Laptops set the same however since the update I did not change the xset settings at all on the gateway (non Nvidia). I wanted to see if it did it first and its not.
I actually have the official drivers. nvidia v: 580.76.05
I can uninstall that and install the open driver and see if the issue persist. The driver was pretty much my guess after I had no issue with the Gateway. Just have other things doing right now so will have to mess with it later.
I just did an update and it involved both kernels, nvidia drivers, and firmware. It all seems to be working here though. I wonder if downgrading your firmware will solve it temporarily?
As another thought before trying such a drastic action, which kernel are you using, do you have another one installed, and if so does it work with the other kernel.
Just the mainline kernel and yeah I did the downgrade but no glory. Still cuts off after 10 minutes. I could have something else going on and at this point just doing a reinstall may be the easiest thing to do. I know it didn’t do it before the upgrade. I could try the lts kernel before a reinstall but don’t really want to spend all day trying this and that just to find it not work. Since the update had no affect on the other Laptop it could be I have a corrupt file somewhere. I guess I’ll go ahead an try the lts kernel first though just in case someone one else has issues.
Currently updating the laptop to go ahead and get the latest then i will install the lts kernel
