FW 13 HX 370 Manjaro - KDE freezes

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Which Linux distro are you using? Manjaro KDE

(If rolling release, last date updated?) 2025-07-28 (today)

Which kernel are you using? 6.15.8-1-MANJARO also the below for the other ones

Which BIOS version are you using? BIOS 3.04 Beta (which fixed an issue with my Dell monitor disconnecting) - Also I set the max charge limit to 80%

Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using? - AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series - HX 370

Hi

I am having some problems with my Framework Laptop 13 AMD HX 370 with the Manjaro KDE Plasma gui freezing. (Yes I know that it is not officially supported)

I have installed Manjaro KDE 25.0.5-250713-linux612 with the following settings

  • Timezone changed to Europe/Stockholm
  • Keyboard layout set to Swedish
  • Erase disk with default btrfs layout
  • No office suite

Zero settings changed after install(not even display scaling), zero extra application installed other than by updates and the kernels below. I have reinstalled the system 3 times so it seems quite consistent.

I am only using the internal monitor during this and the below.

Kernel 6.12.37-1-MANJARO

When closing the lid the built in screen turns of for a couple seconds and then the laptop wakes up again. Same problem with 6.12.39-1-MANJARO and 6.12.40-1-MANJARO (requires the testing branch which is used here after)

Kernel 6.15.8-1-MANJARO (from MANJARO testing branch, same problem with 6.15.7-1-MANJARO)

The suspend problem is now solved! The battery only drops a few percent over night, very nice :slight_smile:

However after a couple of minutes of use, one of two things happen:

  1. The entire GUI (seemingly) freezes. I can move the mouse cursor and it changes to “mark text cursor” when holding over text or the hand-thing when holding over links etc. I can still Ctrl+Alt+F5 to get a working tty. And once it unstucks(see below) I notice that everything during the freeze actually happened like writing text, resizing windows etc.
  2. The taskbar, clock, battery bar etc freezes and the desktop stops responding. I can not use the task bar to open programs, the start menu does not open when clicked or when keyboard button is pressed. Everything else works fine. I can Alt-tab to switch programs etc.

The first problem can often be solved for a couple of minutes by closing the lid, open it again and unlocking. However that often times turns it into the second problem. After some minutes the problem is back.

Writing this text in nano in Konsole with only firefox in the background open has forced me to close the lid about four times :confused:

Sometimes I get the feeling that I can cause issue 2 by hovering over buttons on the task bar.

Do you have any suggestions? :slight_smile:

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I had some freezes. Forced a reboot. journalctl -b -1 showed

Jul 14 06:34:04 fw13 kwin_wayland_wrapper[2324]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Jul 14 06:34:04 fw13 kwin_wayland_wrapper[2324]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues

Searching online Making sure you're not a bot! solution might be amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 at boot. So far that stopped some freezing I was experiencing. I’m on a different system though: AMD 7840U and Debian 13.

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I do not have any problem with device completely freezing(thus far). I can always get access to a tty With Ctrl+Alt+F5 or just close and reopen the lid to get it mostly working. In your case, is it completely frozen?

I’ll try the amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 thing. Thanks!

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With amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 I have not yet encountered any issues. Neither 1 or 2.

I’ll start installing some things so I can start using the laptop for real and see if it keeps working. I will try to check back in with some updates in a day/couple of days.

Thank you so much so far! :slight_smile:

Edit: I am now using 6.15.8-1-MANJARO

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I have been using my laptop for about a day now with the `amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10` fix and no issues at all. Thank you very much!