Crashing Issues on Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (16", Gen 9)

By the way, in my case Teams meetings issues were reduced when switching from Firefox to Microsoft Edge. Firefox was too crashy on my system. But it’s not the case with Chrome or Edge.

Restarts yesterday (and before): 1 or 2 each day.

BTW, I’ve been using Wayland since I got this computer (1 year ago). Today I started to use X11… let’s see how it goes.

Haha, I don’t know if I can bring myself to install Edge browser.

I’m using an app right now:

It’s just an Electron wrapper, so Chromium?

It’s not just Teams that causes the dock screens to freeze. To play BAR I have to disconnect my fancy gaming monitor and play on the laptop screen.

For reference, I’ve been on X11 only.

Hi @grantcarthew I’ve got some updates:

  • Continous crashing didn’t stop, even with X11, so I switched from NOBARA to Fedora (I know they are basically the same, but I wanted to try anyway). But, It was even worse…
  • Summary: I’ve got this troubles with Zorin OS 17, Nobara (39 and 40) and Fedora (40 and 41). The system freezes randomly in the middle of a meeting, while working on a document, while gaming, while doing nothing.
  • I moved to Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS three days ago, and I’ve got no freezing issues so far. It seems very stable. And almost everything works as expected (every app and every game), runs smoothly and I even feel the system as “light-weight”. I’ve said “almost”, because volume control Fn keys (F2 & F3) don’t work, I mean volume is always loud (unless headphones are plugged in, in that case volume keys work great). I know this issue is fixed on Kernel 6.10, so I just have to wait for a Kernel Upgrade.
  • On this distro these are the versions of kernel and NVIDIA driver:
    Kernel: 6.8.0-45-generic
    NVIDIA Driver: 550.107.02

Let’s hope this time I can use my computer in a normal and easy way, and make most of it.

I love Linux… but I feel that these kind of things keep common people prefering Windows :frowning:

Again, this is great info, thanks @njaure1980

I was thinking about distro hoping to at least try something! Ubuntu seems like the best option because of this:

https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-for-personal-systems

You’ve probably saved me some time, although thanks to Canonical, I’m not keen on Ubuntu.
I was thinking about trying Linux Mint DE.

Maybe I should pull my head out of my own Actually Smart Summon and go with Ubuntu. In fact, thanks to you, I’ll install it this weekend. I’ll have to rename my dot files which will require more work than sticking with EndeavourOS. Firefox (.mozilla) should be fine, but others not so much.

This is an issue because there are not enough people using Linux. Chicken or the egg.

I’ve just read that Valve is working with the Arch team!

This could finally fix the one strong-hold that Microsoft has on non-corporate users, gaming.

I know in Australia, the Government, and many businesses are drunk on Microsoft blue. Let’s hope that Windows 11 keeps adding restricted copilot features :slight_smile:

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Hi @grantcarthew

Wow, I had no idea of that Lenovo/Ubuntu marriage. But all makes sense now. Thanks for the tip.

I really appreciate when Linux community users help eachother. That’s what we are doing right now. So to me it’s something great.

Totally agree: “This is an issue because there are not enough people using Linux. Chicken or the egg.”

Neither me: “thanks to Canonical, I’m not keen on Ubuntu”. Eventually I decided to try Ubuntu over Mint, just because I prefer GNOME. And because in the past (15 years ago) I used to be a very happy Ubuntu user, in terms of stability and performance. So I’ve put now my die-hard “Linux Religion” aside and gave Ubuntu a chance again :smiley:

I just had to install flatpack, customize my desktop appereance, install my typical apps and ready to go. But everything works great. I’m really surprised. It’s been 4 days and no crashing nor freezing at all, I can share screen easily, plug/unplug my external monitor, suspend/hibernate my laptop, play games, use my VirtualBox VM’s flawlessly, etc. I short: I can use my computer as a normal guy :smiley:

I sincerely hope you can solve your issues by trying another distro (Ubuntu or Mint). Have a very Good Luck!!!

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Update:

This is exciting news. Thanks to @njaure1980 I installed Ubuntu last week to try it out and see if the laptop was stable. The initial install was using the proprietary nvidia drivers because it was recommended. This didn’t even work and I couldn’t see anything. I reinstalled using the open drivers and got a desktop[1].

Over the weekend and on the start of the working week I had a similar number of crashes. Ubuntu on its own was not a solution.

Saddened, but happy to get away from Ubuntu[1], I reinstalled EndeavourOS and decided not to follow the path I have before. I just installed the OS, all my tools[2], and used “invidia-inst” to install the open nvidia drivers.

The desktop seemed stable. It has not crashed. Yesterday I found out why. I am using the integrated graphics. When I first got this laptop the integrated graphics didn’t work for multiple monitors. Now it does. The updates with the nvidia driver since July have added in support for the integrated graphics to supply multiple monitors through the thunderbold connection (or OS updates).

I found out I was using the integrated graphics (I hadn’t thought about it) because I ran BAR and it reported as such.

OK, this news is not all roses. I don’t have the dedicated graphics for games, but at least I can start using my laptop without the “feel” of Windows 98.

[1]: Ubuntu is horrible. They haven’t just added snap packages, they have removed the default repos for normal packages. Install “kubectl”? Not through apt you’re not. I’m sure I could work out how, but I shouldn’t have to.

[2]: Tools: https://github.com/grantcarthew/notes/blob/main/EndeavourOS.md