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MarkW

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[SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

I don't know if this is a me problem or a you problem, but it's annoying and I don't know why it keeps happening.

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PackRat

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

Just random freezes?

What graphics card?

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MarkW

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

Not sure how random they are

Graphics processor is a Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000

hhh

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

What programs are you running when it freezes (crashes)?

I haven't had any issues with the stock install, but to be honest I haven't done much testing. No crash problems for me with the dev releases before, either.

Posting "I get freezes, not sure how random" doesn't tell anyone anything other than you get freezes (and with only that info, it's a you problem).

Integrated Intel graphics should be rock solid (though there are Linux posts about mesa issues) so I'm guessing it's not that, but it could be anything. Did you use a torrent download? If not, did you run sha256sum? Did you cp/dd the ISO to USB or did you use a GUI? Is it freezing just at idle?

https://wiki.debian.org/Mesa

There is this note on the Arch Wiki Intel page (sec. 1) about mesa...

There have been a couple of reports [4] [5] where the whole graphics stack hard freezes when xf86-video-intel is installed, not even switching to a different virtual console works (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn), only killing the user processes with SysRq works.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

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MarkW

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

I was watching a video on Youube in a tab when it happened  It was the only other tab open apart from m home page

I hadn't heard about this mesa issue. Didn't have it in Boron (or my previous Ubuntu installs). 

I don't seem to have the xf86-video-intel driver installed

MarkW

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

It happened again a while ago.  This time I waited until it shut itself down then rebooted and found out it was a thermal issue (dust in vent), which I dealt with.

MarkW

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Re: [SORTED] Laptop Freezes Every Day Since Installing Carbon

Update. NOT Sorted.

It happened again.  Thermal shutdown... despite me clearing the vent of all accumulated lint.  I don't understand what's going on.  is my fan working?  How do I tell (other than by listening for fan noise)?