#!/linuxSucks/GUI Apps Freezes Randomly In Void Linux
Sep 15, 2021I had this problem with my Thinkpad X1 running Void Linux. The gui applications get freezes randomly, Brave (appimage), qutebrowser and sigil to name some. I don’t have to many gui apps installed in my systems.
Searching for a fix I get this somewhere, Void’s kernel are built with CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_DEFAULT_ON=y and this can cause problems with some GPU model.
Here is a quick fix
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
Find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add intel_iommu=igfx_off to the end at the line like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0 intel_iommu=igfx_off"
Then update grub
sudo update-grub
Reboot the system
sudo reboot
Added that to the grub parameters fix this problem in Void Linux. I haven’t had this problem in other distros that I use (Arch Linux, Debian)