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Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 11:05 am
by Vrowk
Hi guys,
I have a computer that has a dual boot, for Linux Mint Cinnamon and Windows. The new processors of AMD have problems(freezes) with Linux Mint, and the community says to change PSU Idle Control to Typical Current Idle, the question is this is safe? What this will impact on my Linux Mint and my Windows OS? And how this will influence my hardware. If you have an alternative like install another version please tell me!
Thanks in advance.
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 5:22 pm
by gittiest personITW
Can you post the output to the following command:
Who is 'the community'?
What PSU do you have?
What do you mean by 'new processors'?
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 7:11 pm
by kato181
I have a Ryzen 3700X cpu with 1000w psu and don't have any freezing up. I agree with gittiest personItW, in getting you to answer the questions he asked you. We need more info on the system you have. Changing settings in psu's is only asking for trouble, they come default set for everything, and for a reason. Is your computer freezing up when you use winwoes?
You might want to post the results from the following commands also..
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 7:28 pm
by Pippin
When the current drawn is less then x amount the PSU can turn off/go to sleep.
The setting increases the (idle) power draw to prevent that happening.
I doubt it's the cause but in trying it there's no harm done.
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:35 am
by Vrowk
Hi guys, thanks for try helping me!
@Pippin
Your answer helps me a lot! Thanks.
@kato181
My computer doesn't freeze when I use Windows
@gittiest personITW
This is my inxi output
In this topic, the guy sent me a website that talks about my problem:
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=317750&p=1799579#p1799579
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System: Host: armando-A320M-S2H Kernel: 5.3.0-53-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: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: SE1 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F23
date: 08/08/2018
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 76645
Speed: 1405 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1386 2: 1439 3: 1375 4: 1375 5: 1374 6: 1372 7: 1375
8: 1375 9: 1375 10: 1375 11: 1372 12: 1375
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.33.0 5.3.0-53-generic LLVM 9.0.0) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 580] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 09:00.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-53-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-c8c3937a0400 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-3: veth47c2990 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-4: veth782ed33 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-5: veth8154a4f state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-6: vetha0a64a0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-7: vethafffbd5 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-8: vethb46a865 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 447.14 GiB used: 139.99 GiB (31.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SUV400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 212.46 GiB used: 139.99 GiB (65.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.6 C mobo: N/A
Use of uninitialized value $val2 in string eq at /usr/bin/inxi line 5759.
Use of uninitialized value $val2 in split at /usr/bin/inxi line 5764.
Use of uninitialized value $val2 in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/inxi line 5766.
Use of uninitialized value $val2 in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/inxi line 5767.
Use of uninitialized value $val2 in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/inxi line 5768.
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: fan: 733
Info: Processes: 499 Uptime: 3m Memory: 7.79 GiB used: 5.15 GiB (66.1%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0
Shell: zsh v: 5.4.2 inxi: 3.0.32
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/dev/sda1: UUID="b0d751ab-4774-459f-be56-bcb14b937ddc" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="264c054b-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="712C7584059C8DA8" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="264c054b-02"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="AEB07380B0734DB9" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f349a632-01"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="Reservado pelo Sistema" UUID="2E182DD6182D9DB9" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f349a632-02"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="4AC4CB6BC4CB5839" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f349a632-03"
/dev/sdb4: UUID="3444AC4C44AC12A2" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f349a632-04"
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Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1d57:0005 Xenta Wireless Receiver (Keyboard and Mouse)
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a2c:2d23 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:47 am
by rene
Try and see if
sudo ./zenstates.py --c6-disable helps after grabbing it from
https://github.com/r4m0n/ZenStates-Linux (you can if so supposedly set a BIOS setting to that same effect as well).
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:44 pm
by Vrowk
@rene
What this command can influence the usage of my window? And this can damage my computer?
PS.: I'm really newbie, then I don't know exactly how the hardware and software works together and things of this kind.
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:05 pm
by rene
Vrowk wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:44 pm
What this command can influence the usage of my window? And this can damage my computer?
Yes. It will set your system on fire, then turn around and sexually violate your pet hamster.
As in: no, it'll be fine. But also look in your BIOS if you can disable anything concerning C6 sleep state in there.
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:10 pm
by MrEen
There's an issue with the 5.3.0-53 kernel and Ryzen/amdgpu setups. Boot to an earlier kernel to stop the freezes. See
here for details.
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:27 am
by Vrowk
MrEen wrote: ⤴Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:10 pm
There's an issue with the 5.3.0-53 kernel and Ryzen/amdgpu setups. Boot to an earlier kernel to stop the freezes. See
here for details.
How I boot an early kernel?
Re: Linux Mint and Windows PSU question
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:58 am
by gittiest personITW
viewtopic.php?p=1785695#p1785695
See the 5th post down by pbear - it is a good explanation.