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This is getting to be an old topic now, but just to bring it up-to-date, I've found that installing LM 20 has solved all the freezing. No need for mysterious CPU settings or other configuration, just a plain install. Tested on Ryzen and Athlon APUs (CPU and graphics combined).

See the PPA info in this blog post from Clem. Thanks, that worked for 19.3. The only thing is it adds a lower version (1.0.2) than was installed on my LM 20 test PC (1.0.5). I'm not sure if the version has to be the same on all machines, but 2 machines with those 2 versions didn't connect properly....

I think I get all that, apart from the second bit:

Hugh Neutron wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:52 pm

install Clem's packages for bionic,

What and where are Clem's packages, and how do I install them?

Thanks.

antiX (pronounced antics) will work well on such a netbook, I have it running here on a Samsung N130 (I think). Just 1GB of RAM, and 32-bit only, but it works surprisingly well. You mention wanting to use Blender, you'd probably want to try connecting an external monitor so you can see what you're d...

What would I need to do to install Warpinator on systems running 19.1 and 19.3? I'm not in a position yet to copy off masses of data, do a fresh install of 20, etc.

Thanks.

As an old computer user (you can read that whichever way you like, and it'd be right), I prefer emulating home computers over consoles, but it tends to need more complex setting up than console emulators. I have a variety of systems I could retro game on, from 'regular' PCs down to Raspberry Pi's an...

Worked great, now installed.

Thanks both!

Hi Mark, There’s also an unofficial Drawing PPA that packages the latest version for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10: – ... Maybe this might be of help in the meanwhile...DAMIEN Thanks Damien. However I got an error after the second command: mark@mark-AB350M-D3V:~$ sudo apt install ...

I wanted to do some simple drawing, and Gimp doesn't make that easy. I just read that Linux Mint 19.3 will come with 'Drawing' installed instead of Gimp, so I thought I'd give it a go now. In the Software Manager, I'm getting an error message: An error occurred Error deploying: While trying to apply...

I get them too, once per session it seems. However, in a change to previous behaviour, if I just wait 10 or 15 seconds, I'm finding that it will recover. There have been a few kernel updates and such since my earlier posts, but I've no idea really what has 'fixed' this. That said, just this week I h...

Are you on the 4.18 kernel? I tried the grub parameters with 4.15 and had a couple of relatively quick freezes (within the day). But going back to 4.18 it hasn't crashed since. Also, did you run a sudo update-grub after you updated the grub file, and then rebooted? I hope that doesn't sound insulti...

I am not an expert in these things, so take what i say with a grain of salt. ... Hope that helps. -Fizz Well, I've tried these Grub parameters on both my PCs, and while it does seem to have improved matters, I just had another freeze 5 minutes ago. :( Same pattern: I was scrolling around a web page...

Well, i think it's stable again. I'm running kernel 4.18 with grub parameters of processor.max_cstate=5 idle=nomwait rcu_nocbs=0-7 . I have been running for 3 days straight now without any freezes or crashes. Based on other things i have read, i suspect the last parameter, rcu_nocbs, is the importa...

etharus wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:55 pm

Good news! I installed the latest alpha version (9.1.002) of LibreElec and the system has been running rock solid for the past 3 days.

Keep us posted!

@MarkTheMorose: I wouldn't give up on AMD for linux yet. Having sunk a tidy sum into Ryzen APUs, I'm hoping this problem gets fixed soon, but I'm not sure the right people know about it, in order to come up with the fix. The irony is that I shifted around my setups, and took a perfectly stable - fa...

I've continued to suffer freezes, and last night on my Ryzen 2200g system, it froze in unusual circumstance. Or at least, I think it froze, the display was blank after I switched my monitor back on after an hour or so. Maybe there's more than one element to the freezes: graphics and power. I'm tryin...

just use makemkv. Makemkv does no conversion atr all, it just copies the video and audio streams and muxes them to an mkv container. You're jkust limited by the optical drive speed. WHereas if you convert them to .mp4 (and a different video format), unless you have a speedy machine you'\re going to...

Thanks for the replies. I'd changed nothing on my system - I had just got everything working, and wasn't going to tamper. I've found out why Handbrake and MakeMKV stopped opening copied files. It is to do with permissions. I discovered today that if I alter the permissions of the copied files so tha...

I've been using a spare PC to do some video conversion in recent months. These are home recordings from VHS camcorders and such, nothing with CSS copy protection or similar. They have been transferred to a Panasonic DVD/BluRay/HDD video recorder, and most copied from there to DVD+RW disc, and I'm co...

This freezing isn't limited to Cinnamon. I'm on MATE 19.1, and it's happening there too, with a Ryzen 2200g. I also had the same with an Athlon 200ge, effectively a cut-down Ryzen APU, just less cores. Having read a few posts on the subject from different users, it starts to look to me as if it's th...