@perryhelionsemail, well, now that you suggested that, I realize that as I'm using the privative nvidia-driver-390, if the problem is actually related to that, there's nothing the open source community could do.
I will switch to the nouveau driver and see if the problem persists (and if it does, will try the modeset tweak).
As for the other question, yes, the laptop has a 7th gen i7-7700HQ.
@perryhelionsemail, well, now that you suggested that, I realize that as I'm using the privative nvidia-driver-390, if the problem is actually related to that, there's nothing the open source community could do.
I will switch to the nouveau driver and see if the problem persists (and if it does, will try the modeset tweak).
As for the other question, yes, the laptop has a 7th gen i7-7700HQ.