Enabling screen brightness on Framework 13 AI 300 and Linux Mint

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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While Linux Mint installed without issue mostly, I did have an issue where I could not adjust the screen brightness on the built-in display. After digging around, the instructions here seemed to fix it. Specifically:

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-24.04
sudo reboot

This ends up installing the 6.11 kernel instead of 6.8. After doing this, the F7/F8 work as expected. Also of note, to change Fn lock, press Fn-Esc. I haven’t figured out if this persists on reboot yet but isn’t an available option in the EFI configuration that I could find.

Hope that helps folks who just got their hands on the new Framework 13 with the AMD AI CPUs. After getting this fixed, I’ve been quite happy so far!

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Hello,
With AI 300, using a very recent kernel is highly recommended — version 6.14 would be ideal, as it’s well-suited for this modern hardware. AMD is actively improving support, so you’ll see better performance and stability with the latest kernel and Mesa versions.