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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...

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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...

Sad to say that the freezes are still happening in the beta of 19.2, on an Athlon 200ge test PC.

Kernel 5.0.0.20.

Let's see if the 5.0.0.23 just released will make any difference... (betting: no, since I think it's graphics-related).

I don't think it was due to a power-down state (as i have read many places) since the cpu was constantly busy (running simulations overnight). If you're still having freezes, then i would recommend trying 4.18. I can't guarantee a fix, but it certainly seems to have done it for me. I agree that it ...

I was taught the same way but I couldn't find a solution other than to give in and only put one space.

When I see parts of my outgoing emails quoted in a reply, I see two question marks where I typed two spaces. I had typing lessons as a teenager, and was taught to put two spaces after a full-stop (a period as Americans call it). One of my regular correspondents says that my original emails look that...

I get the same, with a Ryzen 2200g and an Athlon 200ge. Both of these (and, I suspect, the 2500U in your laptop) have onboard Vega graphics. On your desktop PC with the Ryzen 1600x,that has no onboard graphics (it's a CPU, not an APU like the others above), so you're presumably using an AMD graphics...

Thanks, it's the freeware version I have. It runs fine under DOSbox as it happens, no need to configure anything. Thanks for the link to FRaBs, I'll check that out. Prospective players of Abuse / FRaBs may want to bear in mind the low resolution of 320x200 is intentional in the supplied official lev...

Didn't the game Abuse used to be in the repository? I'm sure I remember it being there in years past, and think I may have installed it one time, but never played it. It would be nice to know if a native Linux version can still be installed without having to flounder and fail at compiling from sourc...

A bit of a glib answer, but any PC is good enough for gaming, depending on what games you want to play! A PC with a dedicated graphics card and fast CPU is the best route, but personally I have PCs here that have just APUs, where the graphics component is built-in to the CPU. AMDs current Ryzen APUs...

Huh, I thought I was the only one, good thing I searched this out first instead of starting a new thread [...] edit: Sorry for the resurection, just realized that the gstreamer vaapi file is involved from the linked thread. now to figure out the right way of removal... and it worked. Still an inter...

I have an Athlon 200GE too. I experienced many freezes while using firefox, sometimes even during software installation. Thanks for the reply. I had done a BIOS upgrade when I got the Athlon, which got it to work. I hadn't realised the board maker (Gigabyte) had released 2 more updates since. What'...