AMD CPU locks up during video playback

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> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 08:11:30 -0700, Jeff wrote:
>> >It's too bad that Nvidia is so common, it seems to be a heap of
>> >trouble.
>>
>> AMD/ATI and Intel [1] aren't better supported. However, it's really,
>> really advisable to test an issue against a default Ubuntu flavour. The
>> Brave browser is not provided by official Ubuntu repositories.
>>
>> It happened agian.
>
> I was able to connect via my laptop, and Xorg was hogging the top line of
> top.  On the frozen host, the ^<alt><fF#> keys did nothing, and from
> looking at the log it appears that Xorg disconnected all my input devices
> (maybe I'm reading it wrong - I have a zip of some of the system logs, and
> I forgot (again) where I can post it externally...  I had it bookmarked...
> somewhere) .
>
> I killed Xorg and it went defunct, but nothing helped, and startx looped
> with 2 dots per line until I killed the ssh connection.
>
> On reboot, I updated all my bookmarks to Chrome and purged all trace of
> Brave.
>
> I did about half an hour of another GotoWebinar in Chrome - no trouble at
> all.
>
> HTH in locating where the problem might have been.
>
> All help welcome.
>
> Mark
>
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