Input of mouse and keyboard randomly freezes on laptop [SOLVED]

[polemaster1973]

Newbie here.

I'm on a Maingear Vector Pro with a Ryzen 9 CPU and an NVIDIA RTX 3070 mobile, I've noticed that after almost everytime I'm idle after I first start the system up, the mouse decides to randomly freeze on me for like up to two seconds. Sometimes even the keyboard would freeze on me as well, does anyone have any suggestions on how to potentially mend this issue, or is this a normal thing?

EDIT: It actually persists throughout the entire time I'm using the system.

Output of inxi -Fxxxz:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-38-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro product: MG-VCP17A-3070 v: Standard 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MAINGEAR model: VECTOR Pro 17 v: Standard serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: N.1.21Mai03 date: 07/05/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 88.9 Wh condition: 91.6/91.6 Wh (100%) volts: 12.3/11.6 
  model: standard type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 105403 
  Speed: 1135 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1135 2: 1134 3: 1297 4: 1297 5: 1135 6: 1135 7: 1135 8: 1135 9: 1135 
  10: 1135 11: 1135 12: 1135 13: 1297 14: 1297 15: 1138 16: 1240 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: nvidia 
  v: 470.74 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:249d 
  Device-2: AMD vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 1002:1638 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 2560x1440~165Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.74 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:228b 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: N/A bus ID: 06:00.5 
  chip ID: 1022:15e2 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 06:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-38-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8125 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
  bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723 
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 24.24 GiB (2.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB 
  size: 931.51 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 3B2QEXM7 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ1T0HBLB-00B00 
  size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: FXM7301Q 
  scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 937.40 GiB used: 24.17 GiB (2.6%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
  GPU: device: nvidia screen: :0.0 temp: 34 C device: amdgpu temp: 38 C 
Info:
  Processes: 375 Uptime: 4m Memory: 30.77 GiB used: 1.30 GiB (4.2%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

[1000]

- I do not know.
- You can always ask the manufacturer.
- You can check to see if it is ACPI related
But I'm not too advanced to write how to do it . And I have too little time.
Anyway
1. You can read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_ ... _hibernate
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
https://newbedev.com/booting-ubuntu-wit ... -parameter
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingACPI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_ ... _Interface
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi ... lution=---

2. Check logs, find ACPI errors if exist
Example about logs https://linuxhandbook.com/journalctl-command/
If error exist, find something on internet

3. If you know how to turn on ACPI and how to restore afterwards. You can check
Nicely described. If there is no English language, try to change it (top right - blue text)
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/pl-p ... ng?lang=en

[mikeflan]

No, that freezing is not normal. I don't see anything wrong with your inxi output.
Please try this:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... .html#ID27

[polemaster1973]

No, that freezing is not normal. I don't see anything wrong with your inxi output.
Please try this:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... .html#ID27

Okay, I've just did what the article said. Unfortunately though my BIOS really doesn't have any settings besides the boot options and the settings for the lights. I've recently tried to disable the thing in the settings where it automatically restarts Cinnamon when it uses too much ram. I'm now back on this computer and apparently the freezes were still occuring, just very rare now. I'm gonna see how everything plays out with this updated firmware. Thanks for your input.

[rickNS]

Probably no help here, but I am curious if the system did the little freezes right from day one, when you first installed it ?

If not, then how much, and WHAT have you installed ?

I ask that because,

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Info:
  Processes: 375 Uptime: 4m

That's ± about / almost twice as many processes as a fresh install would have. Again I don't know, but seems logical that 175-200 (seems like a lot) extra processes would have some effect ?

[1000]

Can you also read this ?
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/systemd-blame.html

[polemaster1973]

Probably no help here, but I am curious if the system did the little freezes right from day one, when you first installed it ?

If not, then how much, and WHAT have you installed ?

I ask that because,

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Info:
  Processes: 375 Uptime: 4m

That's ± about / almost twice as many processes as a fresh install would have. Again I don't know, but seems logical that 175-200 (seems like a lot) extra processes would have some effect ?

I've installed Wine, TLP, and a few basic games (Solitaire, the Tetris-like game, and SuperTuxKart). By the way, my iMac is running Linux Mint as well with 222 processes running, and I've never had an issue with that freezing up on me. You don't think it could be an issue with TLP? If so, how much so?

[rickNS]

I've installed Wine, TLP, and a few basic games (Solitaire, the Tetris-like game, and SuperTuxKart). By the way, my iMac is running Linux Mint as well with 222 processes running, and I've never had an issue with that freezing up on me. You don't think it could be an issue with TLP? If so, how much so?

Re; TLP, to be honest I do not know, but it is a possibility...to save power, maybe it is doing something...weird ?
The rest of the packages seem mundane enough.
See, your other computer is running with only 222 packages, which is 150 less than the "problem" machine...why so many? Is interesting.
I'll follow along. But sorry to say I don't have the silver bullet.

[polemaster1973]

Apologies for getting back to 'yall so much later, I've just been really busy with the holidays and all that, anyway, turns out it was TLP that was causing the input freezing. Thanks to rickNS for hinting that. However, I have another problem, whenever I do something like install software or updates, or simply even looking at the pages in the Software Manager for programs, the temperatures skyrocket! like from about 50C to about 60C, or even over 72C! I'll make a new topic on that soon if I need to, I'm still new here after all, till then, this issue with TLP is solved, by uninstalling...