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DEX0ZEN

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Registered: 2025-01-25

Posts: 2

Random freeze when opening certain apps or just randomly.

So I have arch installed on my system, but for some reason my system randomly freezes like it either shows the last image and then the screen does not open anymore like it just shuts down or sometimes it will show a distorted image and get me back to the login screen. I use hyprland with custom dofiles from ml4w main release.
My System Specifications:
CPU: Intel Xeon W3550
GPU: AMD HD 7670 4GB (using radeon driver)
RAM: 12GB
Storage:
/dev/sda: 500GB (Root and Boot partitions)
/dev/sdb: 1TB (Home partition)
Motherboard: Dell Precision Workstation T3500
BIOS Version: A17
OS: Arch Linux
Desktop Environment: Hyprland (Custom ML4W installation)
Graphics: Wayland (No Vulkan support)

This also used to happen when I used kde wayland. But I don't think it has ever happened when I use X11.
Is this because hyprland depends on vulkan?
What can i do about it?
Please Help.
Thank you.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,094

Re: Random freeze when opening certain apps or just randomly.

Check the system journal but also for temperatures and cetainly whether

I don't think it has ever happened when I use X11

that's still the case.
Your GPU isn't supported by the amdgpu driver and it's possible that there's a bug in the radeon module which likely sees little testing these days.

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DEX0ZEN

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Registered: 2025-01-25

Posts: 2

Re: Random freeze when opening certain apps or just randomly.

Well I checked the system journal but nothing abnormal is there.
And my temperatures are very good they stay between 26°C-32°C.
I Have reinstalled arch and its not really happening anymore now but I will update when it happens and will check the journal.