Bug 560774 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.41: laptop built-in display - DPMS not resuming after auto-/manual- blanking

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Bob Wya 2015-09-18 16:35:11 UTC]

Following update from
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.30
to
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.41

Built-in LVDS laptop (ASUS G751JT.208 ROG model) does not resume from suspend/blanking. Initially observed with KDE4 power settings (automatic) then confirmed as a general X issue with a manual test:

sleep 1; xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on

An external TFT display (HDMI) will resume correctly. The internal display does not. Behaviour is observed with or without the external display connected. The only way to re-enable the laptop display is to plug/unplug an external HDMI display.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install:
   =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.41 drivers
2. run:
   sleep 1; xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on

Actual Results:  
All connected display(s) blank then after 10 seconds the internal laptop display does not resume and remains blanked

Expected Results:  
All connected display(s) should blank then after 10 seconds - then resume

emerge --info

Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 3.4.1-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.1.6-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.1.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4710HQ_CPU_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    32850136 total,  30116848 free
KiB Swap:   33554428 total,  33554428 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:30:01 +0000
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[Comment 1 Nick Leippe 2015-09-19 17:40:58 UTC]

I can confirm that there is definitely dpms breakage in recent nvidia-drivers.

352.21 - works
352.30 - works
352.41 - I haven't tried yet
355.06-r1 - broken
355.11    - broken

By broken I mean that with these two versions the backlight never turns off.
"xset dpms force off" merely blanks the screen, the backlight stays on indefinitely.

By works, I mean that "xset dpms force off"
immediately blanks the screen and turns off the backlight as it always has.

I haven't tried 352.41 yet--but sounds like from this report the issue may have been introduced between 352.30 and 352.41.

[Comment 2 Frank Krömmelbein 2015-09-20 11:48:02 UTC]

I can confirm after update to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-355.11 from 352.30 dpms is also broken for me.

My emerge --info output can be found here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560602#c1

[Comment 3 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-09-26 20:54:17 UTC]

*** Bug 559068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-09-27 04:25:12 UTC]

Please report this to Nvidia. Gentoo merely distributes their closed source drivers.

[Comment 5 Nick Leippe 2015-09-27 04:33:54 UTC]

Sure, it's for them to fix, but in the meantime I suggest not marking the affected versions as stable in portage--since this is significant breakage.

[Comment 6 Bob Wya 2015-10-04 23:59:32 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #4)
> Please report this to Nvidia. Gentoo merely distributes their closed source
> drivers.

okey dokey, I've sent off a bug report to Nvidia.

[Comment 7 Bob Wya 2015-10-06 16:10:21 UTC]

Further info... The laptop has a mini-display port connector in addition to the HDMI connector.

Therefore I tried hooking up my external display via display port. *With* the monitor attached by DP - both monitors/screens resume from off and work correctly. Great - but only if an external DP monitor is connected... So the plot thickens!!

[Comment 8 Nick Leippe 2015-11-17 22:06:39 UTC]

according to post #29 here:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/791786/linux/dpms-not-working-on-gtx980-with-displayport-connection/2/

Nvidia changelog lists a fix for DPMS on display port connected monitors in version 352.63 released 2015.11.16.

So, as soon as that makes it to portage I'll retest.

[Comment 9 Bob Wya 2015-11-18 18:11:54 UTC]

(In reply to Nick Leippe from comment #8)
...
> Nvidia changelog lists a fix for DPMS on display port connected monitors in
> version 352.63 released 2015.11.16.
...

I've tested this driver with the affected system (ASUS G751JT.208 ROG model).

The notebook built-in display (DP connected) resumes from DPMS suspend.
Resume - from suspend to RAM - still works as well (which is nice)!

Thanks for heads up (I've upgraded from 352.30 to 352.63 permanently now).
I've posted a comment on the Nvidia dev talk forum thread.