SUMMARY I have a multi monitor setup and a necessity to keep my computer running overnight, I have figured the main display is disabled when I turn on the monitors the next day. This behavior is inconsistent and happens about 3/4 of the times. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Physically turn off all monitors 2. Leave the computer running for some hours (lowest detected was after about 3, but more likely to happen if left off for a sleep worth amount of time) OBSERVED RESULT The main display ends up disabled, the screen stays black and gives no signal. Sometimes there's random misbehavior such as the taskbar having moved to another display, or the wallpapers shifted, but otherwise the other displays are unaffected in their location. EXPECTED RESULT All displays would turn on as normal and no weird behavior happens SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.8-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 31,3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION • I have a 4 monitors setup: The main one is plugged via DP, as well as 2 of the others. The fourth one is a drawing tablet and is plugged via HDMI • The main monitor is 144hz, one is 75, the other & the tablet are 60 • In the nvidia settings, I only set the main monitor to force full composition pipeline (for refresh rate and tearing) • Every setting within KDE about screen energy saving is disabled, I do not wish to have my displays automatically switching off • When the main display ends disabled, I turn it on and adjust it back via nvidia x server settings, it will be necessary to reconfigure resolution, refresh rate, location, composition pipeline and so on • The display settings in KDE seem to weirdly behave when attempting to adjust the disabled monitor (moving its location appears to get stuck and things like that). It works correctly after the monitor has been reconfigured via nvidia x server settings • This only began happening since my relatively recent reinstall of the current release of EndeavourOS, it never happened before on the previous release I had installed last march. • The same has happened about once or twice as I used alternate output of my main display (HDMI opposed to DP) to play on my nintendo switch for a few hours, suggesting this occurs when there's no signal for an extended period of time • It doesn't seem to happen if the monitor is off for a short amount of time
This should be fixed in Plasma 5.27. Please re-open if you find that it's not once you upgrade to that version. Thanks!
Unfortunately the problem is persisting as of plasma version 5.27.0. I also noticed that as the main display disables itself, other monitors inherit some of its properties, namely primary status and composition pipeline. In my ignorance, I'm starting to suspect this might be more of a nvidia linux driver problem than a kde one, but if that were to be the case, I would not know where to report it.