For me this is usually solved by opening another tty session (e.g ctrl+alt+f3 ) and going back to F2 or simply restarting the login manager service.
Might be a different issue thought.
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This is exactly what I've been doing but it's not ideal. I did finally give up and switch to Windows after it made me late for a meeting this morning. So close but Linux still doesn't seem viable as a real daily-driver.
I've been daily driving linux since around 2002, but not for gaming initially. I switched to it fully about 5-6 years ago and havent't looked back.
Compared to the trash Windows is? I'd rather "suffer" through 2 sessions switching really.
Eh I think it comes down to convenience. My ADHD ass isn't able to be at my computer 5 minutes early to deal with session switching just to wake my own computer from sleep so while Windows has tons of other issues and I hate Microslop with a burning passion, I'm still ultimately tied to it since I realistically simply can't use Linux and "survive". If the maintainers can focus fixing these usability issues rather than bitching about Rust adoption in the kernel, we could be having a different conversation.
I've seen the same, it was fixed by selecting a different color profile under display settings
I'll give this a try, thanks!
I ran into this today, and I think disabling DDC/CI in the display settings fixed it.
You are not the only one. My monitor is hit or miss on if it will comeback with waking up from a long stent in sleep mode. I’m on Bazzite myself and I got an LG 4k 144hz ultra wide monitor with a nvidia 3060. It even would happen on Win 11 too. It actually happens less on Linux than Win 11. I’m connected via display port and I’ve heard that’s actually where the issue lies or possibly the make of the monitor but I don’t really want to use hdmi. I just deal with it because it’s not every time. I either shut the computer down when I’m done with it or will be away from it for a while or do a hard reboot when it happens. I’ve tried turning the monitor off and on again when it happens or reseating the cable connection on the monitor side when it happens with middling results. I’ve also tried to make sure all my software, drivers, and firmware are up to date as well as ruling out the cable. I’m at a loss short of trying a different GPU or monitor, which I can’t afford to do.
I have had issues like this with “deep sleep” on some monitors. Sometimes manufacturers release monitor firmware updates to fix, sometimes they don’t…good luck!
Edit: iirc it is a DisplayPort related issue and shouldn’t happen if you’re using hdmi instead, could be one option for you to pursue.
I'll look into the HDMI route, but as far as I'm aware it won't support the ultrawide at 240Hz so I either give up what I paid for hardware capability or switch back to windows, unfortunately.
This is a very common bug with Fedora (at least since Fedora 41), in my experience. I could not fix it on my system, so i just turned off the sleep mode.
As far as I understand the discussions on the usual-suspect forums this can be caused by a variety of reasons and it is very hard (for me at least) to diagnose the system in a way that gives the right answer.
Yeah that's what I had gone with the problem is I also have a Kanali TryX CPU cooler and it will burn-in since the vendor doesn't make a Linux version of their controller software. I essentially have to sleep the system or run a windows VM all the time to be able to sleep that when I'm not around. Only other option I can think of is to just shut all that stuff off but then what's the point?
only certain monitors seem to do this, it worked fine on a dell monitor but on a msi oled monitor it doesnt. i noticed that mouse input from the special mouse port on my mobo also reliably wakes the monitor if i turn it on first and then click repeatedly. i just told my computer to save session on shutdown and had input turn on my computer in bios settings to avoid finicky things.
I have the same problem in Bazzite and the only workaround I’ve found is to unplug and replug the HDMI cable. Not ideal.
Funnily enough, I had this issue consistently using ubuntu based distros, and bazzite/fedora fixed it. It only started when i switched from an nvidia card to AMD on my ryzen system runnung PopOS, persisted with Mint, but is yet to reoccure on either my Intel/Nvidia or AMD systems. Very strange issue, I haven't seen any definitive conlusion online
Same thing on my desktop, but not my laptop. Thought it had to do with the AMD video card, but I guess this is a more common issue.
Same issue on ubuntu...