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On Ubuntu 19.10, my cursor freezes after a long period of time not using the system. The keyboard works fine then, though.

My laptop is a 2011 MacBookPro, where I'm only using the Intel videocard, as the Radeon card is defective. I boot 19.10 normally, and 19.10 runs very stable on this machine, unlike Elementary OS even when bypassing the Radeon video card.

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  • In the terminal write modprobe -r psmouse – Sachin Yadav Oct 21 '19 at 13:29
  • Have you added any GNOME Shell extensions? Edit your question and show me ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Start comments to me with @heynnema or I may miss them. – heynnema Oct 21 '19 at 17:08
  • Is it just the mouse, or is the whole OS freezing? If the latter, see here and report back as to whether disabling secure boot fixes things. – Mike Lawrence Oct 22 '19 at 14:49
  • @heynnema, Thanks for reaching out. I tried Kubuntu 19.10, Mate 19.10. All same issues. Seems like a kernel issue. Found this https://askubuntu.com/a/1183594 – Avi512 Nov 03 '19 at 02:08
  • You didn't answer my question about GNOME Shell extensions. Also, edit your question and show me free -h, and screenshot(s) of the Disks app SMART Data. – heynnema Nov 03 '19 at 02:23
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    the same thing here. It's not just the cursor, it's the whole system, keyboard doesn't respond either. It happens at random. – sergiouribe Nov 05 '19 at 00:15
  • @heynnema I have not installed any gnome extensions. I am using stock Ubuntu 19.10. – Avi512 Nov 09 '19 at 05:38
  • If you want the help, I'll be glad to, but you have to answer my questions. Read my prior comments. – heynnema Nov 09 '19 at 16:15
  • @heynnema ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions ls: cannot access '/home/avi/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions': No such file or directory – Avi512 Nov 10 '19 at 10:14
  • @MikeLawrence Secure boot is already disabled. – Avi512 Nov 10 '19 at 10:15
  • Ok so, I noticed that whenever I am copying pasting files, or opening programs, games, the cursor freezes randomly. I do not encounter this doing similar operations on Ubuntu 18.04.3 – Avi512 Nov 10 '19 at 10:38
  • I still need to see free -h and screenshot(s) of the Disks app SMART Data. (asked 7 days ago). – heynnema Nov 10 '19 at 14:30
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    @heynnema. You have been wonderful in trying to help. I removed 19.10 and installed 18.04.3 as the desktop became unusable. Hopefully the next LTS will work as a charm as does 18.04. :). – Avi512 Nov 10 '19 at 21:22
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    Try to temporarily disable swap with sudo swapoff -a and see if you still get laggy performance. I have a hypothesis that this may be related to swapping. – darksky Nov 15 '19 at 02:20
  • Possible duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/questions/1184366/lagging-after-update-to-19-10-from-19-04/1184571#1184571 – Elder Geek Dec 01 '19 at 22:37
  • sudo swapoff -a seems to work but need a more permanent solution – LordDraagon Jan 18 '20 at 03:47

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