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I updated my graphics drivers from nvidia 470 to nvidia 560 due to issues running certain games. It's fixed my gaming issue but reintroduced the problem that kept me from updating for so long.

After setting my computer to "suspend," it wakes up to this screen on all monitors. I am unable to scroll up or type further commands, my only option is to reboot the machine.

  • My graphics card is: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
  • Nvidia driver version: 560.35.03
  • My desktop environment is Cinnamon X11. (This does not occur on Wayland, but there is no Cinnamon Wayland.)

I can't make heads or tails of this error screen. The best I can understand is the "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is required!" line. How can I get more information? Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

Edit: It seems important to mention this is happening only on X11 (Pop default and Cinnamon), and not on Pop!_OS on Wayland.

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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Alright, I think I may have found my solution.

  • The crash only occurs on desktop environments that use x11, it does not occur on DEs that use Wayland.
  • The only DE that uses Wayland that Pop officially supports (that I can tell at least) is "Pop (on Wayland)," which is GNOME.
  • GNOME doesn't look or feel familiar to me, Cinnamon does. I really like Cinnamon. But today I realized GNOME extensions can be used to make GNOME feel different, and are (at least so far) remarkably stable.
  • By installing the extension manager, and then adding the extensions "Dash to Panel" and "ArcMenu" and tweaking them I've been able to achieve the look and feel that I was going for with Cinnamon, on a DE that doesn't crash on suspend. (Note for anyone else that tries this: I had to disable the "Cosmic Dock" and "Pop COSMIC" extensions so things would play nice with the new extensions.)

So it's a workaround. It's essentially finding a way to make the "new" stuff feel like the old stuff, but as an added benefit, I get all the functionality that the new stuff offers.