Whenever I'm watching a video the screen freezes for about 1 second and then goes back to normal, this happens every 30 seconds or so. Usually happens when showing a video on the screen (YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, VLC, Videos), while any other activities work normally. Are there any tips or tricks for fixing this? Note: I have dual boot on my machine (Ubuntu,Windows 10) and this issue doesn't happen on Windows.
- Ubuntu version: 18.04.5 LTS (Desktop Environment: GNOME). OS: 64 bit. GNOME: 3.28.2
- Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2. Driver Version: 440.33.01. CUDA Version: 10.2. prime-select: nvidia
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz × 8
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 19G 5,6G 4,7G 312M 9,1G 13G
Swap: 2,0G 0B 2,0G2 Answers
I also have 18.04 LTS with NVidia (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti), and I am using nvidia-driver-465. It might be worthwhile to upgrade to that driver.
If you need CUDA, there is nvidia-driver-460-server (I didn't try that one).
1I've solved this issue by fixing the CUDA installation on my machine.
Note: some PPAs related to this toolkit had to be removed from my OS repository list (e.g., TensorRT), since they were conflicting with the overall process.
