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!!
)
- 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 reboot
fails to reboot the computer (it does disconnect SSH though, which prevents me from doing anything else. I have to use the physical reset button.)
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!
System Details Report
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- 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