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Frozen monitor and eventual crash when opening Steam on Ubuntu 24.04
NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version
570.169
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Operating System and Version
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel Release
Linux 6.14.0-24-generic #24~24.04.3-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jul 7 16:39:17 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Hardware: GPU
GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU (UUID: GPU-83a57f68-c8a4-b38c-555d-91d8cf646250)
Describe the bug
I have 2 monitors connected my laptop via an HDMI port and a display port. When opening Steam and Steam games, the monitors would freeze for a bit, and then the monitor connected to the display port would unfreeze and work normally. However, the monitor connected to the HDMI port would stay frozen. I can unfreeze it by going to "Settings" and change the monitor arrangement. However, the freeze would continue to occur when I play games and eventually crashes the system.
To Reproduce
- Install Ubuntu 24.04
- Open "Additional Drivers"
- Select the option
Using NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage from nvidia-driver-570-open (proprietary) - Update all the packages
- Restart the machine
- Open Steam / Steam games.
Bug Incidence
Always
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz
More Info
No response
In both reported logs, I did notice the following.
Aug 08 19:41:00 ngatti-Legion-5 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable to read EDID for display device DP-4
Aug 08 19:41:00 ngatti-Legion-5 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable to read EDID for display device DP-4
For the DisplayPort monitor, are you using some kind of adapter for native DisplayPort on a laptop GPU or does this laptop have native DisplayPort. Looking at the logs, I suspect this laptop is a Lenovo Legion 5 and Lenovo Legion 7 Pro?
It has native display port its a Lenovo Legion 5i
Saludos, Nicolás Gatti.
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Binary-Eater left a comment (NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#903) https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/903#issuecomment-3263310758
In both reported logs, I did notice the following.
Aug 08 19:41:00 ngatti-Legion-5 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable to read EDID for display device DP-4 Aug 08 19:41:00 ngatti-Legion-5 kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Unable to read EDID for display device DP-4
For the DisplayPort monitor, are you using some kind of adapter for native DisplayPort on a laptop GPU or does this laptop have native DisplayPort. Looking at the logs, I suspect this laptop is a Lenovo Legion 5 and Lenovo Legion 7 Pro?
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I'm using the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 10th gen. It has a native display port. However, the freezing does not happen on the monitor connected to the display port, rather the HDMI monitor.