I’m using Fedora 43 (KDE) on my older Nvidia Laptop (it’s from ASUS and it has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M). The akmod-nvidia drivers are installed in version “580.119.02”. I have an external monitor connected that is set as my primary display. My sleep mode is set to “deep”.
I previously had a sleep issue when sleeping from the button in the app menu. It would immediately wake up. I fixed this by creating a systemd service to disable the XHC service which caused the wakeup. The laptop now sleeps and resumes normally when using the button in the menu.
Next I tried sleeping through lid close. “Same thing”, I thought, but I was wrong. The laptop When I opened the lid, the laptop’s internal screen remained completely black. The external monitor woke up, and I was able to log in, but what I found was that the desktop seemed to be gone.
- No desktop, no taskbar, but all my applications that were open were still there.
- Usually when plasma crashes, I get error messages and it tries to reboot, so maybe it’s not actually crashed.
- I was able to switch between them using Alt+Tab
- I was able to use shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+T to launch a terminal.
- I tried to start the desktop with
kstart plasmashell(command I found online), but it didn’t work. This is the output: Imgur: The magic of the Internet - I was able to launch other apps, like zen-browser, which showed the same error message (see the image).
I created a pastebin with the latest journalctl entries (can provide more lines if needed): Journalctl - Pastebin.com (edit: updated the pastebin to have everything from lid close onward)
There weren’t too many errors, which surprised me. The errors are:
- Feb 02 19:23:29 rog-ultramarine wireplumber[2025]: spa.bluez5.midi: org.bluez.GattManager1.RegisterApplication() failed: GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists: Already Exists
- Feb 02 19:23:31 rog-ultramarine ModemManager[1077]: [plugin-manager] task 3,enp3s0: error when checking support with plugin ‘generic’: (generic) Missing port probe for port (net/enp3s0)
- Feb 02 19:23:36 rog-ultramarine kscreenlocker_greet[3080]: Could not create EGL surface (EGL error 0x3003)
The behavior is consistent.
- I have tried removing the systemd service I created for the other issue, but the behavior didn’t change.
- I tried disabling nvidia-suspend and nvidia-hibernate, since I found some posts where disabling them fixed the issue. However, that just caused my laptop to not go to sleep properly.
- If I sleep from menu first, then close the lid, then open it, my laptop wakes up normally. So maybe the problem comes from what happens when the lid closes.
- If I sleep through lid close and then wake up, the laptop screen remains dead when I sleep and wake again through the sleep button (not lid close)
- I had one instance where plasma didn’t die after resuming from lid close sleep, but it died after I slept and resumed from the button in the situation above.
- I was able to restart plasma using
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell. My laptop monitor didn’t come back, but plasma was working again. Though my desktop widget on the external monitor moved to the left for some reason. - Sometimes with black screens, the monitor is still there but just doesn’t show anything. This isn’t the case here, my laptop screen is completely disabled. I actually can enable it in the plasma display settings (after restarting plasma), and then it starts working again.
- I also found out that my system won’t go to sleep (as in, it doesn’t finish suspending) if I have Flatpak apps open (not all Flatpaks, but tested with Haruna, Ungoogled Chromium and Fastmail). This is the journalctl for that: Feb 02 20:21:40 rog-ultramarine systemd[1833]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.fcitx.Fcitx - Pastebin.com
I would like to please request your assistance with this issue. My goal is to have my laptop resume from sleep normally when opening the lid.