Screen turns black after 20 seconds of inactivity

Hello!

My problem: The screen turns black after 30 seconds of inactivity.

  • Happens consistently. I used a stopwatch: it’s always exactly 30 seconds.
  • It started about 3-5 days ago
  • I tried rebooting the computer. Didn’t help.
  • In Settings > Power
    • I tried to changing “Screen blank” from 5 to 8 minutes or to "Never"→Problem still occurs.
    • The setting for automatic suspend when idle is ON and set to 20 minutes. I tried to change the duration or turning it off→Didn’t fix the issue.
    • I tried the “Performance” and the “Balanced” settings→Problem still occurs
  • The “Cafeine” Gnome extension does prevent the screen from turning off. (At least I won’t go crazy in the meantime!!:sweat_smile:)
  • I updated everything in Gnome Software→Didn’t solve the issue.
  • Maybe related: for the past few months, my computer often fails to wake from sleep. The screen stays black. When that happens, I can connect to the computer using SSH from another computer, but sudo rebootfails to reboot the computer (it does disconnect SSH though, which prevents me from doing anything else. I have to use the physical reset button. :frowning_face:)

Any idea what could be causing these black screens?

Thanks for the otherwise very pleasant linux experience with Fedora Workstation! Your hard work here is appreciated! :heart:

System Details Report

Report details

  • Date generated: 2025-01-23 21:52:00

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: ASUS All Series
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4770 × 8
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
  • Disk Capacity: 3.3 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 0703
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 47
  • Windowing System: X11
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64
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Seems like there was a new update just now that solved my problem. Yay! :smile:

The problem is back. I think it comes back after the computer was put to sleep? And a rebook fixes the issue temporarily? I will keep investigating.

In the meantime, anyone has a more permanent solution?

Seems like I’m not the only one:

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Nvidia, once again…