Mouse and Keyboard freeze ocationally

[alynur]

Hi guys, as stated, every once in a while, both the mouse and keyboard freeze with apparent power loss to both. Unplugging and replugging of either has no affect. I am forced to power off and restart to continue, You can imagine how frustrating this is.

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-27-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 
  Distro: Peppermint OS 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: A320M PRO-M2 (MS-7B84) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.Q4 date: 12/06/2018 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD A8-9600 RADEON R7 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Excavator rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 24800 
  Speed: 1874 MHz min/max: 1400/3100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1874 
  2: 1426 3: 1400 4: 1400 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7 Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1: 1600x900~60Hz 2: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD CARRIZO (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-27-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 
  Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 
  Device-3: Microdia FHD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-2:3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-27-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 1b:00.0 
  IF: enp27s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 451.54 GiB (32.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD110 size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 50.16 GiB used: 26.21 GiB (52.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb4 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 24.2 MiB (4.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sdb5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 34.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 34.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 266 Uptime: 13m Memory: 6.78 GiB used: 3.18 GiB (46.9%) Init: systemd 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 2799 Shell: Bash 

[cavy]

Hi alnyr,

I have seen this occur with an Intel NUC 4th gen unit, when using wireless mouse and keyboard, and the dongle would give an intermittent signal, it occurred with different distros including Ubuntu, Linuxmint and Fedora. Not distro specific.

Most recently, this precise issue surprised me when recommissioning a pre-loved Dell 3050 MT unit, it turned out to be the Xfce compositor. I disabled it and set up Compton and the freezing of mouse and keyboard, has disappeared giving me two weeks of smooth usage of Bookworm and yesterday morning installed Daedalus to the second SSD. Prior to the Compton change, I would experience a freeze after an hour or so.

Compton: https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepwiki/Compton%20Compositor/

[alynur]

I was trying to make the switch but absolutely no way could I open the file "compton.desktop".

I got it, I had to right click on the file and open with mousepad text editor.

So what output should I see after running "pgrep -l compton"?

[cavy]

Sorry for the delay, I was hospitalised with seasonal respiratory illness. In answer to your question see both screenshots that pgrep -l compton printout confirms it is functioning and its position in the Task Manager.

[rayzer]

i would have random system lock ups but what fixed it for me was increasing the performance of my nvidia drivers. in my case i had to go into the nvidia settings then in opengl settings increase the image settings to full. no more freezing and games work a bit better too.

[alynur]

Not sure what happened but the disabling of mouse and keyboard became untolerable, like within minutes of going into brave browser. I performed a Timeshift restore and will see how things go.

[alynur]

This appears to be a hardware problem. Problem is present in any of the other O/S's I have installed in the hard drive. I have run an fsck on each partition and all are clean. So I don't know.
Trouble shooting time coming up.