Framework Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.06 Release BETA - Held

running Pop!_OS 22.04 here, I updated it yesterday via *Linux/Other/UEFI Shell update * method (USB). No problem so far.

FW booted successfully right after installation. Suspend works. Bluetooth works fine. Virt-Manager (qemu/libvirt) works fine.

Kernel is 6.9.3

edit: “Linux/Other/UEFI Shell update” not “Linux/LVFS”

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IMHO this should definitely be mentioned in the announcement here.

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I have the exact same problem as you, the 2.8k screen works fine on my 7640u, but the diagnostic led came on a short while after booting into Windows. I just updated to 3.06 and at the moment, it seems the diagnostic led problem is gone.

Thanks for taking care of the IRQ1 wake issues!

I do have a new problem for a few days, probably since installing installing BIOS 3.06: The charging light constantly switches between charging (orange) and charged (white), as soon as the battery has reached the desired state of charge. I have limited the battery charger to 86%.

No ill effects here. I too got the fingerprint scanner update at the same time.

Kubuntu 24.10 with AMD Ryzen 7840

I had a small issue when updating to 3.0.6 (white screen, see Github issue), but my real hope was that the frequent blue screens in W11 when running on battery will end (those are preceded by sluggish mouse movement, then W11 bombs without leaving a crashdump), unfortunately this has not proven true.

As this is an upgrade from a Lenovo windows setup, there might be any reason for it, however all drivers, all hardware entries have been removed, and W11 inplace reinstall has been done. Reinstalling everything will be a multi day effort, so I’ve been reluctant without knowing the exact reasons for the bluescreens.

I’m finding the fingerprint reader almost never works since the BIOS upgrade from 3.05 to 3.06.

Anyone else finding the same?

Or maybe it’s just that it’s no good in the cold Winter weather that arrived around the same time?

ADDED LATER: Yes, it seems it was the change in temperature. My fingers seem to need to be very slightly moist for this fingerprint reader to work.

I have ectool fwchargelimit 70 and a 140w USB-C power adapter, and the charge light is pulsing about 1/second as it drops below 70% then gets above 70%. Is this expected?

K3n.

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no more keyboard functioning properly, every keys pressed is typed like 7 or 8 times and the keyboard is extremely laggy.
running OpenBSD 7.6 on framework AMD Ryzen here, tested with OpenBSD latest snapshot and same situation, I cannot use my laptop anymore… I guess that’s the payment for attempting BETA :frowning:

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Can i rollback to 3.05 or will it break even more?

@eau
If you plug in an external keyboard does it work? I.e. is the problem only with the laptop keyboard?

There was a discussion about it on this thread so read up if you want, but the answer is: No, you can not downgrade.

The bios not but the issue there is likely with the ec which can be flashed separately.

In place reinstall is a mistake with Windows. You are going to keep having issues. Always wipe and reinstall when dealing with Windows.

I have had no issues so far. I had to reinstall the amd driver from AMD directly but after that I had no more problems. W11

you think the EC is the culprit?

Well it is doing the keyboard and was updated during the bios update …

Don’t really see how the bios itself would mess with the keyboard, that’s of course assuming the issue is actually with the keyboard and isn’t the whole system stuttering like tpm stuttering would do.

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I installed 3.06 a while ago and noticed the battery charging LED started alternating between red and white. My battery charge limit setting was set to 80% and the battery extender setting was enabled with default settings. Disabled battery extender and the LED behavior is back to normal. Is the alternating LED normal behavior?

external keyboard all is fine, only the laptop keyboard.

could you point me at instruction on how to re-flash the EC firmware?