Comments on: Ubuntu Desktop freezing with Raspberry PI: how to fix

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 01:36:24 +0000

Thank you so much! I waited several months for my pi to arrive and when it finally did it was freezing up. This fixed it.

By: Lazy

Lazy — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:46:12 +0000

You saved me. Thank you for that wonderful guide

By: Piers

Piers — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:30:02 +0000

Thanks, that fixed my issue with freezing!

By: Edwin

Edwin — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:27:38 +0000

All my thanks are belong to you!

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:41:18 +0000

In reply to Oskar.

Hi Oskar,
I don’t know if something could have changed in a very last release. Anyway, you can certainly try adding it at the end (with the “f”)

By: Oskar

Oskar — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:12 +0000

Hmm.. Just installed Ubuntu 64-bit on my new Pi4.. Got the “freezing” issue, but when I open the config file (moved the SD to another Ubuntu machine) there is no “dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d” line to edit?

Should I add it (with the “f”) ?

By: Bilek

Bilek — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:46:39 +0000

I was also strugling with using Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit – I gave it a try several times changing USB disks and using active USB …
I finally stumbled on your sollution, Thank You

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 07:17:51 +0000

In reply to Aden F. Happy this is helping so much people. Thank you for your feedbacks!

By: Aden F

Aden F — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:35:40 +0000

I thought my freshly flashed Ubuntu was failing for bad cables, experiencing EBKAC, or pouting out of neglect, but NO! Getting it to be responsive to my touch and humming happily only required changing a single character in a config file. THANK YOU!

By: Craig Coughlin

Craig Coughlin — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:26:27 +0000

Trying to use Ubuntu as installed by the Raspberry Pi launcher, it would get to the first loading screen and freeze up before even letting me configure the OS. Switching to fake kms fixed it. Before the OS is configured, the config file is right on the root of the SD card. I was hoping they would have fixed this as i use the Pi for a remote windows client, but on the version of Rasp Pi OS I had originally used to make a Remote Thick Client, I also had to use fake-kms, so not an Ubuntu problem. Thank you!