Fedora 43 on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 5070 freezing

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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Not sure if anyone else is running into this and have any idea.

I am doing a clean install of Fedora on the machine after installing the new mainboard into my machine.

After the first reboot I run the below:

sudo dnf update -y

That goes through and downloads the update and it freezes during the update process after everything is downloaded.

It was originally happening on fwupd.

Reinstalling and doing it again and skipping that package, it frooze on a kernel one in what appeared to be the same amount of time.

This only seems to happen after I try the update and it runs okay if I don’t update it.

Any idea on what might be causing this?

I have tried ensuring the machine is in performance mode and not of wifi with no change.

Redownlaoding the ISO did not help.

Which Linux distro are you using?

Fedora

Which release version? 43 KDE
(if rolling release without a release version, skip this question)

Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6

(If rolling release, last date updated?)

Which kernel are you using? default

Which BIOS version are you using? 3.04

Which Framework Laptop 16 model are you using? (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)

Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

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The AMD Radeon 890M drivers are a bit buggy at times. This turns off some of the power saving features that have issues. In X11, this will happen all the time. Wayland not nearly as much.
Try this:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“quiet splash” Find this line, leave all additional parameters intact and change it to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“quiet splash amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x410”

sudo update-grub
reboot

Joe

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Good to know Joe, didn’t know that was a thing.

Sadly that change didn’t make a difference. Just froze on updateing kernel modules again.

Is maybe turning off hybrid graphics required?

Running the update firmware commands provided from Framework, it does not update anything and shows the ones it knows about are already up to date and there a number of entries that it does not have information for.

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That’s all I knew. Sorry.

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You were on the right path.

I reinstalled and then updated with it in Nvidia GPU only mode and it worked without issue.

Not sure if it is turning off now that I switched it back into optimus mode but we will see.

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Hi @Bill_Dolan

Just asking, I noticed that in your initial post you say that you’re running on the FW BIOS ver 3.04. Is this a typo?

I thought it was mandatory to have BIOS ver at least at 4.01 or higher, in order to support the newer Nvidia dGPU.

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3.04 is the newest one for the new mainboard with the AI chip in it.

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If anyone else happens to run into this, putting the bios in nvidia gpu only mode fixed the problem.

Then after getting updates, needed to remove and reinstall the Nvidia drivers and i no longer have gpu issues.

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