the OS hangs

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hi all , how are you doing?
i have just installed leap 15.4 couple of days ago , i installed security updates , and installed chromium browser and installed codecs , this is all i have on my laptop , the codecs downgraded some packages ,
the OS hangs almost every 1 hour , is it because the codecs downgrading is not OK or what is the problem exactly ?
can someone tell me the right way to install codecs w/o downgrading some packages because i couldn’t find the right way.
thanks in advance .

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Sorry, this is nice story telling, nut not a technical description of what you did. Please explain

Also I doubt that codecs let you system hang. Are you running any multi-media program when it hangs?

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i just watch movies in one browser- firefox and open other web pages in chromium ,
is it because i have AMD graphic card then??

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@riyad:

If Mozilla Firefox and Video then, the Codecs you need for openSUSE Leap are documented here: <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support>.

And no, I suspect that, your AMD Graphics Card is not the root cause …


Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.4
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.18-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon™ Vega 11 Graphics
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Are you maybe running out of memory?

You can run something like the System Monitor history and check it regularly, is the Memory usage going up and up?

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thank you everybody for trying to help
after checking the supported AMD cards by opensuse

https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AMD_video_cards

it seems my card is not supported.
i have this card installed in my lapotop
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8550M / R5 M

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The Radeon HD 8550M is a member of the “Radeon HD 8000 series” → <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_8000_series&gt;

  • Which may be either “Southern Islands” → “Oland” or, “Sea Islands” – And, probably GCN 1.0.
    Use “inxi -xxx --admin --filter --graphic” to find out if, the GPU is “Oland” or, not.

Therefore, you should use the “amdgpu” Kernel Driver with, one of the following added to the Kernel Command Line:

  • Southern Islands (SI):
radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1
  • Sea Islands (CIK):
radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1

Use the YaST Boot Loader → tab “Kernel Parameters” – to add the parameters to the Kernel Command Line.

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is intel core i 5 4210u supported processor?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/81016/intel-core-i54210u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2-70-ghz/specifications.html

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**hi everybody , after new installation and the new big updates and adding the parameters as dcurtisfra](https://forums.opensuse.org/member.php/42186-dcurtisfra) suggested, the OS is working fine now.
thank you for your great efforts.
regards.
**

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Which parameters do you use?
You have GCN1, so you need “radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1”.

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‘Can’, not ‘should’.
Amdgpu driver is still experimental for GCN1 & GCN2.