Oh that makes sense. Thanks!
Oh yeah i totally agree!
yeah, entire machine locks up. Yeah have tried ssh'ing from mobile and it was stuck one time when i did that during a freeze. have replugged RAM let's see if system freezes again,
yeah probably this can be an issue.
| What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.
Subsystem: Apple Inc. 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [106b:00fa]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:7270]```
Randomly on my laptop screen this appears and debian just freezes. Sometimes these vertical lines don't appear and system freezes anyway. Its just random. How do i identify if this is hardware or software issue? and then how to identify exact piece of hardware or software causing this problem.
Windows: System needs repairing Me: proceeds to install linux mint
You guys use antivirus on linux?
Yeah it was tough to install it on MBP 2012. Before this particular installation i already had tried to install it once or twice and failed due to some bootloader / grub efi issue.
But i came back after months and tried to get feel of KDE on it. Its good but package manager and software repos are very niche. Not easy to find some apps in repos and u can always install from .tar ball but i dont like that approach. So i hoped to another disteo. YaST tools are awesome. It was the package manager / repo why i switched not KDE itself.
You misunderstood me, What I meant was, "gusy, this was setup few months ago". Yeah, I agree, you can still use any distro on an old potato.
Back then I was using fedora 38 KDE, and I was looking for other options b/c KDE was causing some issues on fedora. Used Mint XFCE for a brief time, then used OpenSUSE Leap & Tumbleweed before finally moving to Debian (current) setup.
I switched to OpenSUSE from Fedora 38. This was back in Nov 2023. Had used fedora for around 1 yr or so and used opensuse after that for few months before I finally switched to Debian.
Look for a key in your keyboard labelled as "any" and press it. Setup should run fine afterwards.