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Sweeper

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Registered: 2011-08-04

Posts: 15

Freeze, laptop not responsive

Hello, everyone!

After closing the lid, the system may get frozen (there are successful cases of going to sleep).
Nothing helps. Not switching to other TTY, no REISUB hotkeys (work in normal state).

Sometimes freeze happens while i'm just using the machine. The picture just freezes.  Sometimes the temperature starts climbing and fans are at full speed. It freezes in that state.

Hardware Vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Hardware Model: ZenBook UX431FAC_UX431FA

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz

Kernel: Linux 6.12.10-arch1-1

i3wm

journalctl -b -1, (after one of the freezes and a hard reset)

https://pastebin.com/Ged3gtnv

journalctl shows error -71, which relates to usb devices (there are problems with webcam Azurewave - it doesn't show in lspci output).

What else did i miss?

Ah. It seems, that the swap partition is not used (1 Gb, while the RAM is 8 Gb). I saw this, when copying files from one flash-drive to another. htop showed that memory maxed out, but swp = 0

Last edited by Sweeper (2025-01-30 13:48:16)

Sweeper

Member

Registered: 2011-08-04

Posts: 15

Re: Freeze, laptop not responsive

In case, other noobs will try to solve similar problem.

It seems, that the vidio-driver xf86-video-nouveao was missing. System was working Ok without it for 2-3 years (I use the laptop mostly for writing).
I installed the driver and nvidia-utils. So far - no freezes during work.

As for the sleep problem, i temporarily uncommented "HandleLidSwitch=ignore" into /etc/systemd/logind.conf
Will try and address this later. I think i should first solve problem with not working swap.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,175

Re: Freeze, laptop not responsive

nvidia-utils will blacklist nouveau and render xf86-video-nouveau inert. so you basically switched to the nvidia drivers now, or you broke nouveau with nvidia-utils and haven't installed nvidia, so you would actually have no graphics driver and run on vesa or so, which is unlikely.

There's at least one other report where nouveau had a regression in screen detection in 6.12