Gregory's ServerUpdated Fedora KDE, and now my main screen keeps entirely at random flashing to black. What the heck? Anyone know if it's a known issue?
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 @gamingonlinux try the other window server; I had this issue with Wayland once and resolved with switching to X11. Also, to confirm I had this issue after an update, but gone after a fresh-install. And, I didn't dig deep into it, so can't tell for sure what was the issue, and no, I didn't have a Nvidia gpu on that computer. Turning off my second screen appears to have solved it *sigh*. I don't know if it's NVIDIA or KDE, but the two together is giving me constant issues. @gamingonlinux Unhelpful anecdote: Most of my random gaming issues disappeared when I switched from Nvidia to AMD graphics. @gamingonlinux I'm actually losing my rag with Fedora, KDE and Nvidia for a slightly different reason today - my laptop and Optimus, aka intel/Nvidia switching. Driving me nuts. @gamingonlinux something like this is what prompted me to buy an AMD GPU. I noticed that my Nvidia GPU couldn’t display anything about 120hz with a second display connected (although this was in Fedora 37 gnome, not KDE). I figured it was just a driver bug and potentially related to Wayland. @gamingonlinux I remember messing with my display not waking up from sleep like the worst PITA of my computing life. It took me 2 weeks to discover I had to edit /usr/bin/nvidia-sleep.sh manually every time I update drivers because NVIDIA is too lazy to add a simple "exit 0" to that file @gamingonlinux sounds like an issue that had been plaguing me on Ubuntu for months. Changing the refresh rate and reverting again seemed to make it stop, usually for the rest of the day. I finally gave up and stopped using two external monitors on my laptop. Also Nvidia. @gamingonlinux is adaptive sync enabled? sometimes this makes my radeon card have issues with my monitor  @gamingonlinux @gamingonlinux Latest nvidia driver? Because that could be a regression that was fixed lately. I sadly cant find the driver release fixes list rn. @gamingonlinux I'm on Plasma 5.27 on Arch, also with an NVIDIA GPU and using X11. so far pre, and post-updating to 5.27 I have not gotten that issue. Maybe Wayland? Wayland is unfortunately still absolutely broken for me even after updating to 5.27. @gamingonlinux Apparently I'm using a similar setup as you: Fedora KDE, NVidia + Wayland. I've been using this combination (minus Wayland) since FC6 without any troubles, but lately every update brings new issues. Are you also experiencing the terrible glitches with the new Big Picture interface? It's usable, but very flickery and jumpy. Also for a while the regular Steam interface hasn't been able to fullscreen any store movies. Weird, as I believe Steamdeck also runs on Linux/KDE. |
@gamingonlinux When I updated Plasma on Arch recently it reverted to months old config. No, not a reset to default, a very old wallpaper and widget config.
It was very weird.