Leap 15.6 has been operating beautifully after upgrade a few months ago.
Every month I do a software refresh (zypper ref, zypper update).
A few days ago (early February 2025) I did a normal refresh and update.
Now suddenly when the computer wakes up from sleep it fails to find to find the splash screen with password field. All I get is a black-ish background and the white outline of a mouse pointer. The mouse pointer is responsive from the mouse. However I cannot tell if the keyboard is working. I tried entering the user password anyway but nothing happens.
On power down and up the computer boots normally and successfully.
A few hardware specs, ping me if I am missing something relevant.
Motherboard = Asus Prim X399-A
CPU = AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X
Graphics EVGA Geforce GTX 1060
I am running into what seems to be the same issue. When my computer wakes from sleep it sticks on a black screen for 10+ seconds, shows me the cursor then freezes up again before showing me the log in screen.
Logging in after this will take me to my normal desktop but Plasma’s features like the task bar, start menu, and notifications are unresponsive and freeze my cursor if I mouse over them. They may eventually update but only once before freezing again.
Accompanying this are the occasional notifications from KWin saying “Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset”.
This was also after an update in early February but I’m not sure which.
I have a similar issue too.
My system is running OpenSUSE 15.6 -
DE: KDE Plasma with X11
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB + NVidia driver
MB: Gigabyte H270M
CPU: Intel i5-7600
The issue is with the latest build of the nvidia driver - 550.144.03-lp156.30.1 works perfectly, 570.86.16-lp156.31.1 will wake up, but the X11 session has a cursor, but otherwise just a blank dark grey screen. If I switch to vtty1, the cli terminal works properly, just the x11 session that doesn’t.
I’ve tried updating the nvidia driver twice now with the same result. When I roll back to the older driver with snapper, everything works again.
Wayland was a total flawed no go flawed does not work when I tried it a few months ago.
I have had bad trouble with Nvida drivers in the past. I went to Nouveau to get away from Nvidia. I rue the day my workstation was built (by Windows gamers) with Nvidia.
I noticed on upgrade suddenly the defaults have changed sneaky w/o my permission back to Nvidia. I don’t recall how to get back to Nouveau. My bread crumbs were not sufficiently well done. I am often frustrated with my past self. It is a learning process.
file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:20: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:75: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:78: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:80: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
trying to show an empty dialog
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/KickoffListDelegate.qml:22: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml:29: TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml:35: TypeError: Cannot read property 'formFactor' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml:38: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.panel/contents/ui/main.qml: Writing to "applet" broke the binding to the underlying model
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.panel/contents/ui/main.qml: Writing to "applet" broke the binding to the underlying model
… is what is spit out all at once
I have also tried the fix of deleting my ~/.config/plasma-workspace folder and restarting. I will see if the issue persists
I ‘fixed’ the problem by replacing the Nvidia graphics card with a Radeon RX 580 graphics card (XFX Radeon RX 580P8D).
First time for me with this computer surgery. The card slot latch was a minor puzzle (thank you YouTube, carefully push latch and pull card).
The too-short single 8-pin power cord was a harder puzzle because Radeon has to design with the power plug upside down vis a vis the Nvidia way. More surgery gave just barely enough.
Now the computer sleeps perfectly (and fast) and wakes up perfectly.
Turnkey plug & play after hardware installation (slight pause on first boot-up when I suspect new drivers were being loaded).
Apparently it was the Nvidia drivers causing the wake-up to lack a screen display.
Parenthetically a few years ago I went through a huge traumatic computer battle when suddenly after a routine update Nvidia drivers failed to give correct screen resolution. That colored my judgement of the current baffling problem. Never again at least from Nvidia.
The Radeon drivers do have one small quirk. Saved files to desktop have icons that cannot be repositioned on the deskstop. The icons can be deleted or moved to other folders.
“NVIDIA Recommended” This driver meets the quality levels applied to Windows drivers that pass testing in Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), therefore providing the same attention to driver reliability, robustness, and performance for non-Windows operating systems (e.g., Linux).
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