FW13 11th Gen - Hibernate/Suspend Behavior Different After 3.22 BIOS?

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Hey folks! Long time FW13 11th Gen Intel user here. I’ve been running Arch Linux on my FW13 for the past ~year and had sleep / hibernate working without a problem. The entire time I had swapped Ctrl and Fn in the BIOS.

I recently (past week? two?) updated the BIOS to 3.22 and have noticed the following two issues after the machine goes to hibernate for an extended period of time:

  1. I will have to connect the laptop to AC power to wake it. Pressing the power button alone is not sufficient to wake the laptop. After I connect it to power, I, eventually, get back to my systemd-boot kernel picker. But this used to be ~instantaneous.
  2. The Ctrl/Fn will be back to the default (e.g. Ctrl sends Ctrl, Fn sends Fn) instead of swapped as I had it set in the BIOS.

The former I can accept as some sort of Linux/BIOS/etc. interaction … but the latter is weird as it seems like a BIOS setting is getting lost or something.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? This feels different from the posts about the Fn key stopping working after a period of time. (e.g. [TRACKING] Fn key stops working on PopOS after a while).

Thanks!

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That sounds like the RTC battery needs to be replaced. If you reach out to Support, they will send you one for free. Follow the directions to replace it carefully, the holder is extremely fragile and WILL break if you do not proceed carefully. Best of luck.

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