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I've used Linux Mint 18 for a long time, but recently a strange problem has come up and I'd like to know how to understand the cause. Sometimes, especially during high CPU usage, mingled and ghost characters and other strange artifacts appear.
How to investigate the problem?
Sometimes the problem disappears when the high load terminates, but mostly I have to reboot the computer.
The problem doesn't come up when using Windows.
lshw returns:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller product: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 09 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:31 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
I didn't manually update drivers/configuration, but I updated Mint as usual.
sensors returns (invoked just before launching GIMP and thus raising the glitch):
acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +92.0°C) temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +92.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +34.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +91.0°C) Core 0: +34.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +91.0°C) Core 1: +28.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
asus-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter cpu_fan: 0 RPM
Surfer on the fall
Posted 2018-02-28T19:35:50.843
Reputation: 93
What are your display adapter and driver ? Have you updated your driver or configuration files ? – harrymc – 2018-03-05T20:13:37.590
1Maybe graphic card overheating? Please specify your HW & drivers (graphic card, cpu, drivers). It would be also good to have a temperatures overview (see
lm-sensors) – tukan – 2018-03-06T09:46:09.813@Surfer on the fall: Why have you added a bounty if you aren't answering questions? – harrymc – 2018-03-08T07:22:25.550
@harrymc I had some serious issues so I wasn't able to retrieve the information required... – Surfer on the fall – 2018-03-10T15:38:49.017
updated question adding details! – Surfer on the fall – 2018-03-10T15:43:37.497
1Thank you, but could you be more specific about your computer model and the hardware - it's hard to translate these ids. – harrymc – 2018-03-10T17:25:01.807
@harrymc Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MX, CPU: Intel Core i3-3220T – Surfer on the fall – 2018-03-11T06:26:14.570
See if this method helps the problem. That answer lays the blame on old drivers still found in Linux which can be uninstalled for better results.
– harrymc – 2018-03-11T14:41:03.203@harrymc seems to be working right now.. – Surfer on the fall – 2018-03-11T22:35:27.060
If you mean that the linked method has solved the problem, then I have added it as an answer. – harrymc – 2018-03-12T07:16:42.320