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Timeline for Screen lag spikes when WiFi on

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S May 19, 2018 at 15:19 history bounty ended Fabian Röling
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May 19, 2018 at 15:18 vote accept Fabian Röling
May 19, 2018 at 15:18 answer added Fabian Röling timeline score: 0
May 15, 2018 at 13:20 comment added Fabian Röling New info! I found some screen recordings: The oldest two have no lag, then there's one where I had "wobbly windows" installed, all after that have the lag! So maybe installing wobbly windows messed something up that wasn't corrected when I uninstalled it again! I still don't know why it only happens with WiFi on, but that could be the cause. And I don't even have to do anything different next time I install the OS, I could even install Debian again, I just can't install wobbly windows ever (which I didn't plan anyway, I just had it for a few minutes for fun).
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May 13, 2018 at 22:10 answer added LSerni timeline score: 1
May 13, 2018 at 18:53 comment added jdwolf @Fabian No, just grab your distros updates as normal. I just put that there to show which versions are currently out.
May 13, 2018 at 13:33 comment added Fabian Röling So, @jdwolf, do I have to download one of those drivers or do you mean that it should already be installed?
May 13, 2018 at 13:25 comment added Fabian Röling I added /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids into the question.
May 13, 2018 at 13:24 history edited Fabian Röling CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 13, 2018 at 10:12 comment added jdwolf git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/…
May 13, 2018 at 10:07 comment added jdwolf Here we go: wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi Its supported.
May 13, 2018 at 10:06 comment added jdwolf Considering the cursor does not lag I would assume its not the screen but the GPU at issue. Causes could be bad driver interaction or bus errors. Bus errors would probably should up in journalcrl. Note that iwlwifi is a binary blob and so sometimes that leads to unforeseen compatibility issues. wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi
May 13, 2018 at 0:48 comment added George Vasiliou You can try with 4.16. You might also have kernel 3.16 somewhere in your grub or in /boot
May 12, 2018 at 21:06 comment added Fabian Röling No, it's 4.9.0-6.
May 12, 2018 at 21:00 comment added Fabian Röling I have the options "Linux 4.16.0-1" and "Linux 4.9.0-4", both regular and recovery. Recovery is console only, 4.9.0-4 seems to change nothing.
May 12, 2018 at 19:16 comment added George Vasiliou Can you try to boot with a different kernel...? Grub should give you such advanced options.
S May 12, 2018 at 16:27 history bounty started Fabian Röling
S May 12, 2018 at 16:27 history notice added Fabian Röling Draw attention
May 11, 2018 at 22:28 comment added Fabian Röling I tried switching my network manager over to wicd, that didn't help.
May 10, 2018 at 13:27 comment added Fabian Röling D _ o _ n _ e _ .
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May 10, 2018 at 13:15 comment added njsg Right now I don't have any advice to offer, but could you please update your post with the output of lspci -nnk? (This will show, for all listed components, their numeric PCI IDs and the name of the kernel driver in use.)
May 10, 2018 at 13:07 history asked Fabian Röling CC BY-SA 4.0