After a fresh install of UBUNTU 22.04.1 I am experiencing random "screen freezes" after allowing the 15-min power setting to blank the screen. The desktop system is never allowed to suspend, and for the most part is running 24x7.
I am not a gamer, the system is mostly used for documentation (LibreOffice 7.3.7.2) , web searching (Firefox 107.0) , Emails (Thunderbird 102.5.0), Graphics (GIMP 2.10.30), and some development work using the ooRexx scripting language.
When I wake up the screen (password not required, automatic suspend is off) I can move the mouse, but cannot select anything. The keyboard is semi-active as I can do a ALT-F2 to get a prompt where I can enter "RESTART" - which will sometimes restore functionality for a while. If I allow the screen to blank again, there is no recovery other than a power-off reboot.
(1) using the "X11" windowing system (wayland does not work.)
(2) video card: NVIDIA GeForce GT-710
(3) Video driver: NVIDIA 470.141.10 (which is the recommended driver)
(4) Monitor SAMSUNG U28E570 4k monitor (resolution set to 2410x1355)
(5) Processor AMD® Fx(tm)-8350 eight-core processor × 8
(6) memory 8GB
(7) Ubuntu 22.04.1 5.15.0-53-generic, x86_64: installed
(8) Gnome 42.5
(9) nvidia-srv/470.141.10,
Attempts to use either the Nouveau driver or Wayland resulted in total system hangups and/or black screens, with the only way to recover was a poweroff reboot.
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@kalix I do not know what the actual chipset is. I do not want to attempt to disassemble the graphics card to see --IF-- the chip has an ID.
The card is an EVGA GEFORCE GT 170, part number 02G-P3-2717-KR (2 GB with DVI-D, DVI-I and Mini-HDMI connectors. Nothing is overclocked. Card works perfectly under Windows, and UBUNTU 20.04 LTS. Seems to also work under LINUX MINT.
Acts up under Ubuntu 22.04.1
$ dkms status
r8168/8.049.02, 5.15.0-52-generic, x86_64: installed
r8168/8.049.02, 5.15.0-53-generic, x86_64: installed
$ date && sudo lshw -C video
Thu Dec 1 10:43:13 AM EST 2022
[sudo] password for bill:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK208B [GeForce GT 710]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:53 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff memory:d8000000-d9ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
*-graphics
product: EFI VGA
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=1024,768
$ inxi -Gx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia
v: 470.141.10 bus-ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: MacroSilicon MS210x Video Grabber [EasierCAP] type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
gpu: nvidia resolution: 2410x1355~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.141.10 direct render: Yes