I am not that organised, I Scrabble in a book I bought years ago written by a fellow member of our site Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel Barrett, mine is edition 3 and I hesitate to buy new as dont think I can copy all the notes I made into the new book.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I will do that if/when it happens again. For now I am very happy with LMDE 7
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Thank you for the suggestions. I might as well take a note on paper as they might not be accessible during a “freeze” 
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Cinnamon with software rendering doesn’t even work. I get a black screen and a working mouse cursor. I can get out of it using the restart X11 hotkey (thank you @callpaul.eu )
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Back to an original question did you update or install clean ?
As he was moving from LM to LMDE, I think it’s a fresh install. I don’t know of any migration path.
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Installed from scratch. (Apparently “This topic has been closed”. Should I open another one under Linux Mint?)
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No its not closed, I thought we had a solution so flagged it as such, will go back and remove the flag. Better if we keep on this same question, that way others can read back and look at what has been done or suggested before.
Ok done that
Lets find out what you are using in more detail
Open the System Reports application in the Mint menu. Click the System Information tab. Your System Information should then appear in the right panel.
If you can give us that detail please
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Dont think there is one, I have never seen it offered.
System:
Kernel: 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.13 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: LMDE 7 Gigi base: Debian 13.0 trixie
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: N552VX v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: N552VX v: 1.0 serial: part-nu: ASUS-NotebookSKU
uuid: UEFI: American Megatrends v: N552VX.300 date: 08/31/2016
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 39.2/48.2 Wh (81.3%) volts: 14.4 min: 14.4
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: not charging cycles: 60
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 bogomips: 41599
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau v: kernel
arch: Maxwell pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:139a class-ID: 0302
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 13d3:5666 class-ID: 0e02 serial:
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x046f res: N/A dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: iris device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: iris inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) device-ID: 8086:191b
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbc class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.57+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.1
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0f1 state: down mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:4 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
hardware: no software: yes address:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.58 TiB used: 681.55 GiB (42.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: 1100 MTFDDAV256TBN size: 238.47 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: A020 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Integral Memory model: V Series SATA SSD 480GB size: 447.13 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 200 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: SanDisk model: Portable SSD size: 931.51 GiB type: USB rev: 3.2
spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 6004 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 430.88 GiB used: 24.57 GiB (5.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 4.4 MiB (1.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.01 GiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb2
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Primax HP 125 USB Optical Mouse type: mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0461:574a class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-4:3 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 13d3:5666 class-ID: 0e02
serial:
Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 4-1:2 info: SanDisk Portable SSD type: mass storage driver: uas interfaces: 1
rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 power: 896mA chip-ID: 0781:55bb class-ID: 0806 serial:
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C pch: 40.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2100
Repos:
Packages: 2080 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2071 pm: flatpak pkgs: 9
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:Alexx2000.list
1: deb http: //download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexx2000/Debian_13/ /
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https: //mirrors.ptisp.pt/linuxmint gigi main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //debian.uevora.pt/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
3: deb http: //debian.uevora.pt/debian trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
4: deb http: //security.debian.org/ trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
5: deb http: //debian.uevora.pt/debian trixie-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.66 GiB used: 2.54 GiB (33.1%)
Processes: 269 Power: uptime: 2h 6m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Client: Cinnamon v: 6.4.13 inxi: 3.3.38
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Nothing jumps out as a source for your problems.
Do you keep your system updated ?
Does the problem occur when you are doing one thing such as web browsing and if so which browser do you use (chrome, firefox etc)
Is it at set times in the day ?
After restarting does the problem clear complete
I do not agree here. Maybe my point of view is too rigid, but what we do here is called topic/thread hijacking. It’s simply unfair for the OP. Far better would be if one of the @moderators moved the entire LMDE part to a new topic.
Just my 2 cents.
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I agree with Alfred. I would feel more comfortable if the messages starting from message 37 (I can re-post it here for completeness) were moved to a new topic.
In any case I haven’t had any “freezes” recently so either it was fixed by an update or I haven’t run into the combination of software that causes it
I will surely come back to this topic as there are warnings and errors on the ~/.xsession-errors file
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I agree, but I dont know how to move some replies to a new topic.
I shall read up and have a practice.
As long as the original post author has got what they needed, I dont think it matters greatly, but it is untidy.
Update
The move to a new topic is completed.
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Thanks Neville I had just read the reply and wondered if it was possible or how to do it, perhaps you can tell me for future réf. Yes wanted to do it or close the question as solved then pick it up again but worried would loose vital stuff in the move or close.
I marked it as solved unless the situation changes but at that stage do it as new as the story will have changed with updates anyway
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What I noticed was the vivaldi browser.
That would be my first thing to check… substitute another browser
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My default browser is Firefox. I use Vivaldi mostly as an IMAP Mail client for my Gmail account. I have both open most of the time and they “live together in perfect harmony” as the song goes. I did notice a few warnings regarding Cinnamon on the ~/.xsession-errors file but I haven’t had any “freezes”. I will post here (in a new topic) if/when that happens. Thanks!
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Thanks Neville
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