Kernel bug / oops -> touchpad failed

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A few minutes ago my kernel had a BUG / oops and afterwards my touchpad stopped responding. A few minutes later my plasma panel stopped working. Tried restarting it with kwin_wayland --replace which left the laptop in a state that was completely unusable. Didn’t even manage to switch to TTY, had to reboot via REISUB method.

Journal of the event: PrivateBin

I suspect that the nvidia drivers are at fault. Is that plausible? Should I maybe try nuveau drivers? are those able to handle intel+nvidia dual gpu laptops?

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If you can get around the terminal to attempt restarting wayland - you may as well try

systemctl soft-reboot

The command restarts userspace completely - not only the windowmanager.

Yes - you were the one which did some bios configuration to get around the overvolting issue- right ?

What I do know is that the Iris GPU can work using i915.

For the nouveau driver - I had a Thinkpad for some years with dual GPU - I think I most used the Intel iGPU - never the dDPU - Nvidia 960M I think.

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well yes, but I usually prefer to just restart the window manager because it allows me to preserve my open windows…

no, I think you confuse me with somebody. The only changes I applied in my BIOS on this laptop where:

  • switch strg+fn keys
  • disable secure-boot
  • adapt the boot order

this would probably suffice for me in 99.99% of all my use cases, I’m not a gamer and the times I’ve tried to play with CUDA or some GPU benchmarks amount to probably less then 0.01% of the time I’ve used laptops in the last 10 years…

Should I just uninstall the nviida drivers or how should I proceed?

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Back then - all I ever did install was to choose free driver when installed.

Installed free drivers using mhwd

mhwd -i pci video-linux

After you rebooted and made sure the free driver is loaded - you remove the nvidia drivers

You can find the driver installed

mhwd -li

Then remove

mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-something

Apply sudo to the command

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