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I’ve been seeing similar GUI freezes in FreeBSD, on my Lenovo x260, as I did in Fedora: When using Xorg, my Lenovo x260 would occasionally become unresponsive for several seconds and then proceed as if nothing had happened.

Turns out the fix is very similar to the one for Fedora. Just add the following line to your /boot/loader.conf:

hw.i915kms.enable_psr=0

This turns off a feature called Panel Self-Refresh which seems buggy on this computer.

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