About to have more sanity today. Yesterday was get...
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napperley
04/25/2020, 2:39 AMAbout to have more sanity today. Yesterday was getting very bad. Whenever a GUI based JVM application was being used (including IntelliJ) the laptop would emit ticking/scratching sounds. Every few seconds the desktop would lockup for a few seconds which is awful. Things were coming to a head when the VisualVM program would cause ticking sounds about every second when the monitor graphs were being updated on screen which would break my concentration. I couldn't properly concentrate when working on a Kotlin project in IntelliJ, especially when scrolling in the text editor where ticking/scratching sounds would occur often.
Have temporarily downgraded the Linux kernel from 5.3.0-46 to 5.0.0-37 which seems to have significantly improved the situation. The ticking/scratching sounds no longer occur, and it appears that the desktop is no longer locking up every few seconds. Intel's QA for their drivers/firmware has been pretty sloppy lately (including the Thunderbolt firmware fiasco - https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/ht508988 ). Suffice to say that Intel's driver/firmware QA isn't up to the usual high standards that Linux users expect.
napperley
04/25/2020, 2:43 AMApparently newer versions of Linux kernel 5.4 contain the Intel Graphics driver fix for the desktop lockups. Hopefully Linux kernel 5.4 is back ported to the Ubuntu 18.04 release 🙏 . Linux Mint 19 (LTS ver) which is based on Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS ver) has access to the Linux kernel enablement stack that contains some back ported Linux kernels (newer versions).
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hallvard
04/25/2020, 8:10 AMSo 20.04 is not an option? I upgraded yesterday, it runs on kernel 5.4 and everything is smooth ... (that said, I never experienced the trouble you were describing in the first place ...)
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kqr
04/25/2020, 6:44 PMgood to know
kqr
04/25/2020, 6:45 PMI am having this lockings and I have 5.3.0-46
kqr
04/25/2020, 6:45 PM(but without sound effects :D)
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napperley
04/26/2020, 3:26 AMTried with Linux kernel 5.3.0-45 today, and found that none of the issues mentioned above were occurring. So far so good simple smile . Now I have to put up with the minor annoyance with the Update Manager applet always showing the information badge, and remember to NOT install the Linux kernel 5.3.0-46 update.
napperley
04/26/2020, 3:27 AMWill be interesting to see if Linux kernel 5.4 has any of the issues mentioned above.
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kqr
04/26/2020, 4:02 PMyeah 45 looks good
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