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Old 03-05-2019, 12:33 PM   #1
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fedora 29 and AMD


I have Fedora 29 installed on a AMD Ryzen mobile laptop. When I watch udemy or youtube videos, system suddenly freezes, fans probably go at max speed, eventually lowers but system is still frozen. I have to do a hard reset.

Latest kernel and updates installed. Any ideas?
 
Old 03-05-2019, 07:33 PM   #2
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It might be helpful to know what the RAM, the graphics card, and video RAM is.

One test you might do--and this is kind of convoluted, is to start the browser from the terminal, arrange the terminal and the browser window so you can see them both, then start a YouTube video. You might get some helpful error messages to the terminal that you can note (or photograph). Granted, it's a long shot, because the freeze might happen before any errors get thrown.
 
Old 03-06-2019, 03:51 AM   #3
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Which desktop are you running?
Code:
inxi -b
output using code tags ([#] above the input window) would be a good way to show this and what frankbell asked for.

Does this happen with more than one browser?

If your desktop is using Wayland, something that uses Xorg instead could be instructive, as could vice versa. Plasma is like that. If you're using Gnome on Wayland, IceWM on Xorg to run the browser could be another instructive test. IceWM is light, quick to install and start. Whatever login greeter is running should offer a choice of desktop or window manager sessions to open, as long as you are not configured to use auto login to bypass those alternatives.

Via another computer on a LAN, a remote login could be used to run 'dmesg -f' or PS, where any error messages that appear could be easily copied and pasted here even though the laptop has frozen. Maybe something exists that allows the output of the terminal that starts the browser on the laptop to show on a remote login's screen? Having a temperature monitor open while the terminal and browser are running could be useful too, to see if heat is playing a role when the video output load goes up. Your profile shows Tumbleweed. How long ago did you switch to or add Fedora? Can you still boot TW, to see if freezing might be something to do with the installed Fedora browser(s) or OS?
 
  


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