dragging a chrome tab to secondary monitor freezes mouse clicks

[weeple2000]

I have a reoccurring problem. When the problem occurs, I am not able to click with my mouse. If I hit ctrl - alt - backspace on my keyboard, I can sign into a new x window session.

I can produce the problem by trying to drag a tab from chrome to my secondary monitor.

Can anyone else produce this issue?

I have tried the 5.8 kernel. It did not solve the problem so I reverted.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F41 date: 07/30/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 86239 
  Speed: 2195 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2196 2: 2195 
  3: 2195 4: 2193 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2187 8: 2195 9: 2195 10: 2195 11: 2196 
  12: 2195 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI R7770-PMD1GD5 driver: radeon v: kernel 
  bus ID: 08:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD VERDE (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.0-80-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 
  Series] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.4 
  Device-3: Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-4:2 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-80-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 07:00.0 
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 type: USB driver: r8188eu bus ID: 1-9:3 
  IF: wlx34e894b2a1ac state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-3: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 479.51 GiB (50.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW010T8 size: 953.87 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 937.40 GiB used: 479.50 GiB (51.2%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 55 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 429 Uptime: 59m Memory: 15.65 GiB used: 2.78 GiB (17.8%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38 

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[Moonstone Man]

Can anyone else produce this issue?

That's the wrong question, especially if nobody here has a setup exactly like yours.

The video card is 9 years old. It might have degraded components. The only thing I can suggest is that you beg, borrow or steal a more recent video card, either AMD or nVidia, from someone and see if the problem persists. The objective is to eliminate the video card as the cause.

[weeple2000]

I am a bit out of touch with hardware prices. I thought the pandemic put them out of whack. I built this PC pre-COVID intending to upgrade the graphics card down the rode. It looks like everything costs a fortune now though.

In the meantime I may avoid chrome in an effort to try to reproduce the problem outside of it.

[weeple2000]

Update on this issue. I am not sure what caused it. I wound up restoring a timeshift backup from a point I suspected was before the issue occurred. It seems to have gone away.

The issue also wasn't specific to chrome. I avoided chrome and still produced the issue.

[mikeflan]

Excellent. Timeshift probably saved you a week's worth of work
Run that inxi again and compare it to this:

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Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI R7770-PMD1GD5 driver: radeon v: kernel 
  bus ID: 08:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD VERDE (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.0-80-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 

This might be the key part: driver: ati,radeon; unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
Then watch your Update Manager activity closely for driver updates. You might have to avoid one of those for a little while to keep the problem from coming back.