More Freezing...ARGH!

[timmn1]

I am also having freezing issues, I don't use the computer much except for occasional internet access and listening to Pandora via Pithos. The problem seems to happen when I'm connected to the internet using a web browser, Firefox, Chromium, it doesn't make a difference. Presently, I am listening to Pandora with System Monitor on, and it has been working fine for the past half-hour. PSU idle control in the BIOS has been set to Typical current idle.

Here is the inxi -Fxz output from earlier this morning:

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System:    Host: AB350M-D3H Kernel: 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 
           Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: AB350M-D3H v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: AB350M-D3H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F22 
           date: 03/15/2018 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 charge: 100% status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 
           L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27947 
           Speed: 1418 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1415 2: 1481 3: 1428 4: 1519 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Vega [Radeon Vega 8 Mobile] vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus ID: 07:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa 
           resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-43-generic LLVM 6.0.0) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.6 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-43-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI 
           port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0 
           IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 16.38 GiB (1.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DX002-2DV162 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 915.89 GiB used: 16.38 GiB (1.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 22.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 227 Uptime: 4m Memory: 14.69 GiB used: 643.7 MiB (4.3%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 
           Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.27 
           
           

[fungus]

Mint 19 / Ubuntu 18.04 was released only a few months after Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2200G / 2400G) was released, and back then Raven Ridge was a completely new platform. It takes time for Linux to adapt to this and you need a newer kernel (>=4.19), newer MESA(>=18.2), newer linux-firmware and possibly you need to update and / or adjust some items in your BIOS.

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I do not know if Mint has inherited HWE from Ubuntu, but you could try to go that way: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

If nothing else works you probably need to choose a different distro, Manjaro apparently works great with Raven Ridge and Ubuntu testing (18.10) has all the required package updates required to run Raven Ridge stable. Ubuntu 19.04 will be released in april and by then there should be no more issues with Raven Ridge in Ubuntu LTS and other distros based upon it (like Mint 20 will be).

[timmn1]

I did the updates, this is what inxi looks like now:

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System:    Host: AB350M-D3H Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.2.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 
           Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: AB350M-D3H v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: AB350M-D3H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F22 
           date: 03/15/2018 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 charge: 100% status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 
           L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27947 
           Speed: 1419 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1418 2: 1419 3: 1419 4: 1419 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Vega [Radeon Vega 8 Mobile] vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus ID: 07:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa 
           resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0 4.20.0-042000-generic LLVM 7.0.0) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.6 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.0-042000-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel 
           port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0 
           IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 18.19 GiB (2.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DX002-2DV162 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 915.89 GiB used: 18.19 GiB (2.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 24.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 24 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 234 Uptime: 35m Memory: 14.68 GiB used: 1.34 GiB (9.1%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 
           Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.27 
           

I guess we shall see what happens, but this is why I threw the computer in the back of the closet a year ago in disgust and defeat.

[mrmajik45]

Signature checks out.

[timmn1]

Well, so far, it hasn't frozen up yet. However, I am still not ready to declare a victory.;