Framework 13 Ryzen AI 7 340 - MES ring buffer full / system freeze on Linux Mint 22.3

[Lukas_Bernhard]

Hardware:

• Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series

• CPU: Ryzen AI 5 340

• GPU: Radeon 840M

• BIOS: 3.05

Software:

• OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon

• Kernel: 6.17.0-22-generic

Software:

• OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon

• Kernel: 6.17.0-22-generic

Problem: System freezes completely multiple times per day during normal use (browsing, messaging). Mouse becomes unresponsive, keyboard non-functional, TTY inaccessible. Requires hard power off.

Logs show:

amdgpu: MES failed to respond to msg=MISC (WAIT_REG_MEM)
amdgpu: MES ring buffer is full.
i2c_designware AMDI0010:03: controller timed out

Attempted fixes — none resolved the issue:

• amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x12

• amdgpu.psr=0

• amdgpu.mes=0 — parameter appears to have no effect, MES ring buffer errors persist

Notes:

• Issue occurs during completely normal desktop usage

• No heavy GPU workload required to trigger

• Related to: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4749 (Its supposed to mostly affect .19 onwards kernels.. its not supposed to happen at .17

[Wow]

Hi, I’m also on Linux Mint, same laptop, same problem. According to the link you posted, a fix was found and the kernel 6.18 and 6.19 have been fixed. However, LM only proposes 6.17.0-23 at the time of writing, so not sure if we’ll need to install manually the newer kernel, or if it’ll be backported too.