I recently bought a new Lenovo Yoga 510. Getting rid of Windows 10 took me long enough but I managed to boot from USB and install Ubuntu 16.04 the usual way (by erasing Windows 10).
The thing is after around 5 to 10 minutes in Ubuntu, everything freezes except the mouse. It can move but not interact with anything (hovering over icons also doesn't make them react). I tried rebooting, doing a fresh install, seeing if something I installed caused it, but nothing. I also did tests using the Checkbox application for tests (memtest, HDD, CPU, GPU...), but they all came back with no errors. After not finding a solution at all, I figured there must be some mystery problem with the computer and I exchanged it for another one of the same model.
Surprise, the new laptop has exactly the same issues. I've been using Ubuntu for almost 10 years now and this is definitely the worst I've ever been through. Any ideas?
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I had the same issue with a Lenovo 510 14AST with an AMD chipset. After a lot of testing I found out that the AMD Radeon graphics model R5 is too new to be supported by the mesa open source VGA driver.
So I did a fresh install of Xubuntu (which behaved most stable due to a simpler GUI) and then immediately installed the AMDGPU-PRO driver as described here
