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Hello, i have weird problem which haven't solution on this forum or maybe i just cant find it. Anyway the problem is random crash of Xorg, i think, bcs it always looks like this: as usual I use the computer, browsing the internet or whatever, when suddenly freezes everything except the mouse, but after a while the mouse also freezes, then I get a black screen (no signal), and after a while everything coming back to normal, all programs, cards remain as it was before the black screen. The same happens on my second computer... Any ideas whats going on?
Specification:
Linux 3.17.1-1-ARCH x86_64
X.Org X Server 1.16.1 (2014-09-21)
Mesa 10.3.2-1
First (main) computer:
Processor: AMD FX-6350
Graphics: ATI HD7770
Second computer:
Processor: AMD X6 1100T
Graphics: ATI R9 270
Ps. Im new in Arch linux so please be forgiving for me. Sorry for my bad English
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I've had very similar crashes lately. Often while playing videos from chromium. Everything except mouse would freeze, but audio keeps playing. Usually I've tried to switch to another tty, which would just cause my screen to go blank, and me to do hard reboot. But just a while ago I realized that if I let it sit for a while, everything would become back to normal after a minute or so.
I haven't experienced these crashes for few days at least, and I was actually hoping it got fixed with some update.
I'm on intel hardware, but also using gnome-shell. I'll try to look into the issue if it happens again for me.
Welcome to arch! I hope it has been fun, and you get your issue sorted :)
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Hey guys, I'm new to Arch. The documentation is the bomb! Okay back to this topic;
I'm suffering the same problem. I've got an Intel i3 and use the internal GPU. First I thought "well maybe it's because i'm using Cinnamon" I've also installed Xfce, the same happens. Cursor is still active but App-windows and panels just don't repsond. I can switch to other TTY. Spotify music stays running on the background, also for Popcorn Time.
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I think it could be related to this filed BUG; https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42353
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i've checked if this is a GDM problem and i've started using tty+starx but still the same...
@myradon i don't think it is the same problem you mentioned - i have no error log and my freezes are not permanent, besides, it's happening really randomly.. sometimes i can spend about 3hours without any freeze... maybe if i have more time i'll downgrade kernel to check this hypothesis
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ok i just downgrade kernel to LTS (linux-lts) and now it seems to be good but now i have error or maybe i should say warning when kernel runs driver, i have message which sounds as follows :
radeon 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contests
but system start without any problems
i read about it and everything what i found says to add "radeon.modeset=0" to kernel line in grub.cfg, but when i do it i have another error:
*ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!
and this one is worse because after that one Xorg won't start..
Ofc i can live with this " Invalid ROM contests " warning but if someone have another idea how to hide/solve this out i'll appreciate that.
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