On Sonntag, 15. November 2020 12:40:59 CET Manfred Hollstein wrote:
Moin,
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 10:09:35 +0100, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
On Samstag, 14. November 2020 22:14:53 CET Mark Petersen wrote:
[...] You could remove the xf86-video-intel and just use the modesetting driver. I don't think the intel drivers are seeing much love.
I never had problems with the Intel driver, but a few with the modesetting driver. Especially the problem in this case seemed to occur out of nothing, i.e. without an update or config change before.
I see this from time to time on one of my systems, too. This is an HTPC using an Intel CPU i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz. As the PC is really dedicated to be used for playing back all sorts of Multimedia files, it has only happened when running Kodi. Sometimes audio gets stuck and replays a small audio frame in an endless loop, but video is completely stuck, too; the system cannot be reached over the network and switching console ttys does not work either. Similar to what you have observed, it doesn't happen for a few days (sometimes even weeks), but then it suddenly happens several times a day. There is no difference which kernel is used (I see this behaviour on Leap 15.1 and 15.2, using either the Leap kernel or the one from Kernel:stable); the xf86-video-intel gave me more problems compared to modesetting, but the lockups happened with both drivers. And, yes, it doesn't occur here on Win 10 running Kodi, too.
Do you see a particular use case when it happens for you?
no, it happens during completely different actions. On those bad days it usually starts with problems resuming from hibernation. After a reboot (or a power down and power up cycle) the system seems to be usable as expected. After a while you start firefox, open a website, check mails with KMail or any other action and it freezes.
Cheers.
l8er manfred
Bye. Michael.