so i had this freezing hanging issue earlier so i decided to upgrade my laptop from 4GB to 8GB RAM.
and it did that again today. laptop frozen and screen went all white.
in my last post someone said something about installing nouveau open source driver for linux mint because what i have isnt supported anymore.
i just dont know how to do that.
also here is the output of the command inxi -Fxpmrz
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inxi -Fxpmrz
System: Host: m4400-Precision-M4400 Kernel: 5.4.0-137-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Portable System: Dell product: Precision M4400 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0NY980 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A29 date: 06/04/2013
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 17.2 Wh condition: 17.2/93.2 Wh (18%) model: Sanyo DELL WG35103 status: Full
Memory: RAM: total: 7.76 GiB used: 1.96 GiB (25.3%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Extreme Q9300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20216
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/2535 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596 3: 1596 4: 1596
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G96GLM [Quadro FX 770M] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 340.108 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Quadro FX 770M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-137-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efe0 bus ID: 00:19.0
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN vendor: Dell driver: wl v: kernel port: df00
bus ID: 0c:00.0
IF: wlp12s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 194.89 GiB (81.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SPCC Solid State Disk size: 238.47 GiB
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:1f.2
Partition: ID-1: / size: 232.02 GiB used: 194.72 GiB (83.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
ID-2: /boot size: 702.1 MiB used: 179.5 MiB (25.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 980.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 42.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 56 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3120
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x bionic main
2: deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/persepolis-ppa-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/persepolis/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
Info: Processes: 253 Uptime: 15m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.32
any help is monumentally appreciated
sincerely
-KK