r/MXLinux • u/Nuigurumi777 • 1d ago
Help request Sleeping problem
tl;dr MX-23.6_KDE_x64, the proprietary NVidia driver breaks the sleep mode. Any fixes except using nouveau?
I've had a similar problem before, as described in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MXLinux/comments/1szqci7/mx_23_kde_doesnt_wake_up_anymore/ , after some updates the system would go to sleep but wouldn't wake up, at that time I solved it by removing the "liquorix" kernel (6.18.something) and downgrading back to 6.1.0-17 (any "liquorix" kernel newer than that caused that problem). After some more of the recent (the end of September) updates, the (same?) problem is back again, even with the default 6.1.0-17 kernel - now it doesn't even go to sleep, just sort of "hiccups" for a second and keeps working as if nothing happened.
I was also trying MX-25.3 KDE on a different drive a few days ago, and noticed that the sleeping/waking up was working (with the default 6.12.107 kernel) until I installed the proprietary NVidia drivers, and if I remove them, it starts working again. So the problem on 23.6 could have also been not with the kernel, but with the NVidia drivers and how they communicate with the kernel?
What to do? Is there an easy way to downgrade the proprietary NVidia drivers? Or any settings/parameters to try? Searching the internet, I've found an advice to use `nvidia_drm.modeset=1` kernel parameter, I've tried that, no effect.
The CPU is Intel Core i7-6700K; the GPU is GeForce RTX 2060.