System Freeze caused (likely) by browser activity

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Hi,

Has installed 42.1 a couple of months ago and initially things seemed to
go smoothly.

Now I have been experiencing regularly freezes. That is, neither mouse
of keyboard are reacting to anything – so a hard shutdown remains the
only option.

It appears this happens whenever I have been working with a browser
(either Firefox or Chrome) for 10-20 minutes and the exact moment of
a freeze seems to be when I click some link in the last couple of
occurrences (but may be coincidence).

Could find anything useful in error logs.

Any suggestions welcome - at this point 42.1 has become all but unusable.

Thanks, Thomas

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What video card and what driver? Have you tried different video settings in configure desktop. Assuming you use KDE. Have you tried a different desktop?

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Thanks for responding:

This has happened both under gnome 3.16 and gnome classic.
I don’t have KDE installed (which seems to have a known freeze issue)

Video Card is nVidia GT218 [GeForce 310]

For driver I found the following installed
xf86-video-nv 2.1.20-11.1-x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.11-7.2-x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
(not sure what to make of those two …)

Thanks!

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Try installing the proprietary driver

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers