Hi,
I have been using endeavor for a month or so. I have two separate set of issues which are rendering the system unusable and causing frustration.
My main choice at the moment is X, it works fine I just have one issue with it. Every time I leave my laptop for few minutes and system is allowed to sleep. When it wakes up it is frozen on login screen and not even password prompt is shown. I have left it for about an hour and it doesn’t get unstuck.
Due to above issue I switched to wayland and it have different kind of issues. But the wakeup thing is fixed with wayland.
With wayland the laptop freezes randomly even it is idle. I had the same issue on Manjaro as well so I guess it is a common wayland problem.
Wayland refuses to play videos with mplayer among other things. But hey, its still work in progress so understandable.
I would really appreciate any help fixing either of these. (Preferably X though)
I’ve experienced similar issues with sleep. It’s a workaround more than a fix, so I’m interested to see what others may share, but I’ve taken to just disabling auto sleep and hibernation entirely. I let the screen turn off, but that’s it.
Of course, may not be feasible if your’re frequently on battery and away from the system.
What kind of hardware and desktop environment are you running? Bios up to date to get around that amd cpu stuttering issue that was a big thing for a while and still an issue on some architectures?
Codecs installed? Do the same videos work with say vlc or mpv? I just tried to play a video with mplayer myself via the terminal and it worked fine. Video codec was AVC and audio was vorbis for the one I tested with.
Using the LTS kernel is a simple thing to try, provided your hardware isn’t too new for it (my audio only just recently got supported by the standard kernel on my laptop).
Suspend/hibernate does not work, or does not work consistently
There have been many reports about the screen going black without easily viewable errors or the ability to do anything when going into and coming back from suspend and/or hibernate. These problems have been seen on both laptops and desktops. This is not an official solution, but switching to an older kernel, especially the LTS-kernel, will probably fix this.
Wayland refuses to play videos with mplayer among other things
After recent update this issue seems to fixed itself. I am now able to play videos with any player. But before VLC was working fine issue was with mplayer.
I see you have a hybrid graphics setup. I have never run such a setup myself, but I know people tend to use software to manage that. Perhaps you might find more answers by searching for hybrid graphics stuttering on Linux.
Edit: I’ve also seen people mention stuttering related to the newest Nvidia 550 driver and they had to downgrade back to 535 while simultaneously switching to the lts kernel. I personally have not had that problem myself, but these driver bugs tend to be hit or miss anyways.
I am experimenting with only enabling UMA(Integrated) graphics by setting the option in BIOS. I noticed that a few errors during boot that I use to see are now not appearing. Although my google searches directed me to ignore those. They might not be that innocent.
It could be that my both set of issues are tied to NVIDIA being NVIDIA.