My Screen Occasionally Becomes Non-Interactive

chosentorture · 2015-01-02 22:44:47

Recently, I've started experiencing the problem of my screen becoming non-interactive while using Arch. I'm using OpenBox. This happens when I'm viewing a video or browsing the web. The mouse cursor seems to work fine but the screen becomes a non-interactive "image".

Here are some errors/warnings that I found in my journal -

Jan 03 03:34:55 archvaio kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000

Jan 03 03:34:57 archvaio kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Jan 03 03:34:57 archvaio kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Jan 03 03:34:57 archvaio kernel: kvm: disabled by bios

Jan 03 03:35:00 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: wait hw ready failed. status = -62
Jan 03 03:35:00 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: hw_start failed ret = -62
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: wait hw ready failed. status = -62
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: hw_start failed ret = -62
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: reset: reached maximal consecutive resets: disabling the device
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: reset failed ret = -19
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: link layer initialization failed.
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: init hw failure.
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: mei_me 0000:00:16.0: initialization failed.

Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: [drm:ilk_display_irq_handler] *ERROR* Pipe A FIFO underrun
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: [drm:cpt_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A
Jan 03 03:35:02 archvaio kernel: [drm:cpt_serr_int_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

Jan 03 03:36:03 archvaio org.ayatana.bamf[350]: (bamfdaemon:417): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type _OB_WM_ACTION_UNDECORATE

What should I do?

Last edited by chosentorture (2015-01-02 22:45:31)

x33a · 2015-01-03 05:23:58

What hardware are you using? Also, does it only happen with Arch?

jasonwryan · 2015-01-03 05:35:03

SSH into the machine and tail the journal; replicate the freeze and then see what specific error messages are printed...

chosentorture · 2015-01-03 15:24:03

x33a wrote:

What hardware are you using? Also, does it only happen with Arch?

I'm using an Intel Core i5-2450M with 4G of RAM. I've installed Arch in dual boot with Windows and I mostly use Arch and don't use Windows much so I wouldn't know if this problem is limited to Arch.

chosentorture · 2015-01-03 15:27:00

jasonwryan wrote:

SSH into the machine and tail the journal; replicate the freeze and then see what specific error messages are printed...

How should I replicate the freeze? It doesn't specifically happen at a certain task. It has happened while viewing videos and while I was using chrome without any particular action that would trigger it.

jasonwryan · 2015-01-03 18:32:06

Well, watch a video and use chrome at the same time!

ooo · 2015-01-03 19:14:45

I used to have similar random freezes on my system with intel, but the issue seems to have resolved itself at some point.

Have you tested if using linux-lts kernel helps? Somehow I believe this was a kernel issue in my case. I'm currently running 3.18.1 without any issues, but I'm pretty I didn't get these freezes with the latest 3.17.x kernels either.

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#1 2015-01-02 22:44:47

My Screen Occasionally Becomes Non-Interactive

#2 2015-01-03 05:23:58

Re: My Screen Occasionally Becomes Non-Interactive

#3 2015-01-03 05:35:03

Re: My Screen Occasionally Becomes Non-Interactive

#4 2015-01-03 15:24:03

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