I just installed Mint on my Acer Predator yesterday. I had the issue that the PC wouldn't find the mmx64.efi file, but after using the usb boot medium to copy and rename grubx64.efi (as was the solution here: viewtopic.php?t=308137) and everything seemed to work fine.
However, after maybe half an hour of installing apps and getting the whole thing up, the system started to freeze randomly every 20-30 seconds or so.
The freezes take about 10 seconds, and during that time the CPU usage of one or two cores seems to spike, as well as the Notebook coolers acting up.
And after a while it would just freeze completely, forcing me to use ALT+Prnt+R+E+I+S+U+B or holding down the power button for 5 seconds.
I tried using a different NVidia driver, and that didn't change anything.
I also tried disabling Dropbox synch (which is the only process running right now), but that also changed nothing.
Here's my
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System:
Host: krampus-Notebook Kernel: 4.15.0-76-generic x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.2
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Predator G9-592 v: V1.08
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: Mustang_SLS v: V1.08 serial: <filter> UEFI: Acer v: 1.08
date: 10/02/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 83.1 Wh condition: 86.2/90.0 Wh (96%) volts: 16.6/14.8
model: AS15B3N type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 41472
Speed: 2748 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3254 2: 3298
3: 3206 4: 3210 5: 3177 6: 3284 7: 3493 8: 3294
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:191b
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204M [GeForce GTX 980M] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: nvidia v: 430.50 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:13d7
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 980M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.50
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI Sunrise Point-H driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbb
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-76-generic
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: a000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: alx v: kernel port: 9000
bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1969:e0a1
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-7:2 chip ID: 0cf3:e300
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 27.68 GiB (1.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: CV1-8B256 size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 201 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: b060 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 31
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 233.23 GiB used: 27.67 GiB (11.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 55 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
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/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:
Processes: 257 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.55 GiB used: 1.46 GiB (9.4%)
Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash
v: 4.4.20 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
