Hi everyone, randomly after some time of use Xorg freezes while the rest of the linux system Manjaro Xfce continues to work fine in the background, so it makes my system unusable. This desktop PC has a GTX 1080Ti and I think this bug is related to the “nouveau” driver. I think it is the fault of the “nouveau” driver because my old laptop with an intel iGPU and a second nvidia GPU had a similar problem with the same Manjaro Xfce. To solve the problem on my laptop, I had simply uninstalled the “nouveau” driver because my intel iGPU was enough for me at that time. Except that now, this desktop PC has only one GPU and I would like to make “new” work properly, because I don’t know any good alternative. And, as said, I’m not sure it’s really the fault of “nouveau”. Finally, two error messages are displayed one after the other; the first one is with Xorg and the second one with Kworker; both must be related I think. Here they are:
so first add this parameter: sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and in this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT inside the quotes add this parameter: ibt=off
dont remove anything from there!, just add it to existing parameters, save the file, update grub: sudo update-grub
its possible that you would not be able to boot without this parameter, so we added it just in case…
now uninstall this: sudo mhwd -r pci video-linux
and install nvidia drivers: sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia
reboot
So I did all your instructions and I got a success message for the uninstallation and then also for the installation. After rebooting, this is what I get with the command “inxi -G && mhwd -l -li” :
inxi -G && mhwd -l -li
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 520.56.06
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: N/A
resolution: 3440x1440~60Hz
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo
missing.
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
> 0000:26:00.0 (0300:10de:1b06) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-470xx 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2021.11.26 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
> 0000:22:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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network-r8168 2016.04.20 true PCI
Oh yes, when I successfully installed “video-nvidia”, I got this information:
If you run into trouble with CUDA not being available, run nvidia-modprobe first.
If you use GDM on Wayland, you might have to run systemctl enable --now nvidia-resume.service
However, I think that these messages do not concern me. Do we agree?
Ok, thanks. For the moment everything seems to be fine with the nvidia drivers I installed with you. As I said in my first message, my error is random, so I’ll have to wait a bit before resolving this topic. I promise to come back and resolve it if it turns out to be the case.
Thanks again for your help.