Description of problem:
On a W541 (with Nvidia graphic card) the screen turns occasionally off during execution of xrandr -q. This happens for example when gnome-control-center is started.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.3-11.el7_4.1.x86_64
Model: W541
Graphic: Nvidia Quadro K1100M

How reproducible:
often

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in to gnome as user
2. make sure the nouveau driver is not loaded
2. start 50 x glxgear (to get some load on the system)
3. in a second terminal repeat several times: xrandr -q

Actual results:
System flickers occasionally (screen turns completely off for 1 second)

Expected results:
System does not flicker

Additional info:
We have blacklisted the nouveau driver on this model due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545546


# log file /var/log/gdm/:0.log when system crashed
(II) modeset(0): EDID vendor "CMN", prod id 5571
(II) modeset(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) modeset(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0  136.62  1920 1964 1992 2070  1080 1082 1086 1100 -hsync -vsync (66.0 kHz eP)
AUDIT: Thu Feb 15 09:06:18 2018: 4640: client 17 disconnected
AUDIT: Thu Feb 15 09:06:21 2018: 4640: client 17 connected from local host ( uid=14685 gid=14685 pid=11496 )
  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 233
AUDIT: Thu Feb 15 09:06:21 2018: 4640: client 68 connected from local host ( uid=14685 gid=14685 pid=11496 )
  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 233
AUDIT: Thu Feb 15 09:06:21 2018: 4640: client 68 disconnected
(II) modeset(0): EDID vendor "CMN", prod id 5571
(II) modeset(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) modeset(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0  136.62  1920 1964 1992 2070  1080 1082 1086 1100 -hsync -vsync (66.0 kHz eP)
(WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Cannot allocate memory
(WW) modeset(0): Page flip failed: Cannot allocate memory
(EE) modeset(0): present flip failed
(WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Cannot allocate memory
(WW) modeset(0): Page flip failed: Cannot allocate memory

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xrand -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+
   1400x1050     59.98
   1280x1024     60.02
   1280x960      60.00
   1024x768      60.04    60.00
   960x720       60.00
   928x696       60.05
   896x672       60.01
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25
   700x525       59.98
   640x512       60.02
   640x480       60.00    59.94
   512x384       60.00
   400x300       60.32    56.34
   320x240       60.05
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)