“options i915 enable_psr=0” is still looking good here. I just got done cranking away on a game with no issues. Not even a burp. My lap is super sweaty because the laptop is cooking! LOL!
I went back through journalctl to see if I could find any oddball graphics messages, but I haven’t seen any since changing this option.
@James_Adams Pretty sure the DisplayPort adapter is the culprit. Removing it from my wife’s computer and putting one in mine switched around who’s computer was freezing. Then adding it back to her computer caused hers to also freeze again. I just took them out of both and we’ll see what happens.
@Aggraxis could you explain how and where exactly you need to put that kernel command or addition? I have a i5 12th gen and I didn’t have that file in /etc/ that others have referenced and I’m not sure how to make that change to the kernel parameters.
I’m having hard freezing, screen stuttering, and mouse movements stuttering too.
@Brendan Sure!
Type the following command in a terminal window:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
The file may not exist, and so nano might be presenting you with a blank file. This is ok. Put in the following line:
options i915 enable_psr=0
I also have two other lines in mine because I was following several different guides. It is my understanding that these two values are already at their defaults for 12th gen based on the Arch wiki and other random Google results:
Save the file (ctrl+x, follow the prompts).
Now that you’re back to the shell prompt we need to call dracut to incorporate your changes:
sudo dracut --force
It may take a few seconds. When it finishes (usually without output), reboot your system. At that point the changes should have taken effect. You can check for any i915-related messages since the current boot with journalctl:
Got more freez (mister). It happen to me very rarely mostely when I am on google meet video call, pushing the machine a little with many heavy apps and sharing windows.
I had it with Ubuntu mate 22.04 LTS kernel 5.18.x yesterday and this time it freezed two times, the mouse moves but the window manager is unresponsive. The video conferencing was somhow still there, at least the sound, the mouse was moving… It came back once…and then I had to hold the power button down to reboot and come back in the conference (I was organising!).
Other than video call;
I had another freeze just before opening a simple PDF wih no video call (but I was on the phone, it s asif it detect I really need it to not freeze !). I mention it because with my thinkpad E590 I never had such blocking of the wall desktop.
I’ve followed the steps described by @Aggraxis - hopefully this’ll resolve the freezing issues. After setting the option, and then afterwards reading what it does (lol), I understand that it’s a power saving feature. Additional context from my situation is that I’ve followed the linux power-saving guide stickied somewhere else here… could this be the culprit?
Hello @Aggraxis. As I am experiencing this hard freezing issue I followed the process you described here and all seemed to be going fine until I called dracut. This is what I see at that stage.
Thanks @Aggraxis. I have no idea where that stray quotation character is coming from. I can’t see it in Terminal and when I look at the i915.conf file itself in /etc/modprobe.d/ there is no visible quotation character either. Weird. I’ll keep trying but I’m a bit stumped.
@Aggraxis Anytime! If I had a nickel for every time things like that have caused me wasted hours at home & work, I would’ve been able to retire 10 years ago.
Yup, I think it works. I’ve tried the things that tended to cause hard freezes, and since doing the enable_psr=0 thing it has been rock solid reliable. Very nice.