NVIDIA systems will not suspend with lid close and no external monitors
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-desktop |
Confirmed
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Medium
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gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Iain Lane | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Iain Lane | ||
Disco |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Iain Lane |
Bug Description
[ Description ]
With the NVIDIA driver, nvidia-384, the system will not sleep when the lid is closed due to gnome_rr_
[ Fix ]
mutter provides a more reliable API to get the "type" of a connector (output). The fix switches gnome-desktop to use this API instead of looking at the output's name - which can be anything apparently.
(This drops a visible symbol, but it was only one which you could have used if you included "libgnome-
[ QA ]
If you have an affected system - an NVIDIA-using laptop which doesn't sleep if the lid is closed: install the update, and check if the laptop does now sleep.
[ Regression potential ]
Changes the heuristic-based scheme for detecting if a display is "built-in" to a method based on the reported connector type. There's a low chance that this could be wrong for some machines which were right previously.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- NVIDIA systems will not suspend with lid close and no external montiors + NVIDIA systems will not suspend with lid close and no external monitors |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-desktop: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.