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System freezes unless mouse/keyboard constantly used

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I am "new" in Mint. I have used Linux for 2-3 years but installed Mint only 1 or 2 months ago.
I like Mint but have one problem with my operating system. I cannot play videos (both from my hard-drive or from Internet) unless the video randomly freeze and the audio constantly repeat about half second of audio. I have search the Internet and I have found similar problems on other Linux-systems. Like here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/638434 and similiar description like this reply on this topic https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic. ... 447#p18108
It is similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_und ... a_playback except for that I only need to press a button or move the mouse to get the system running again.
Just having "SHIFT" pressed while playing videos (placing a load on that button) will solve the freezing (expect it seems to bee some "flicker" from time to time).
I have reed that "nolapic_timer", "nohz=off" or "clocksource=jiffies" can help. I have tried these but I'm not sure if I am doing that right. I try to set this in the /etc/default/grub (see in the end of my post)
Sometimes when I am booting or shutting down, then I need to move the mouse to get the system moving.
Sometimes (I don't know if it is related) the system hang after the grub menu (short blinking the HD-leed and then nothing, only black screen) and only thing is to press enter few times (and if still nothing, then press restart-button to reboot). Because Mint don't show any text or nothing while booting (except for few seconds at the end of the booting) I don't know why the system hang on booting, but this only happening sometimes but most times the system boots.

Here is my /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
# to change grub configuration
# type in command sudo pluma /etc/default/grub
# and then in command sudo update-grub

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" splash vga=786"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

# more swithch info that I found on the internet
# testing to uncomment one at a time - no result
#nolapic_timer
#nohz=off
#clocksource=jiffies


My Linux is Mint 13 (maya) - Mate 64-bit. I have ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver installed but the problem was there already before I installed that.
I have Linux OpenSUSE installed on the same machine and there I don't have this problem (but same problem (worse) on booting and I usually boot "failsafe")

Thanks if someone can help
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Re: System freezes unless mouse/keyboard constantly used

Post by DrHu »

thaiiceland wrote:Because Mint don't show any text or nothing while booting (except for few seconds at the end of the booting) I don't know why the system hang on booting, but this only happening sometimes but most times the system boots.
You can change that by disabling quiet, splash

You can also run a boot monitor or check dmesg to see data produced during a boot
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