[GUIDE] Linux Mint on Laptop 13 with AMD 7040

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Do you remember which version of Linux Mint you installed Greg?

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And dear all I appreciate you taking the time to post your experiences. I think I will go with the Cinnamon Edge edition on a spare SSD later this week. Will report back too.

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I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon (I think originally 21.2, and have since upgraded to 21.3).

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Hi all. I got around to installing Mint Cinnamon Edge 21.3 on my 13 AMD 7840 and I absolutely love it. I am so thrilled with what a complete and thorough experience it offers out of the box.

I was slightly dismayed though to find that Unity (the game engine) is unusable as it is so laggy / has an issue with performance. It is odd as I was using it perfectly on Ubuntu 22.04, which is what LM 21.3 is based on right?

Are there any obvious things anyone might recommend to check?

I completed the Ubuntu setup instructions here and also the firmware is on 3.05.

I also checked and in the BIOS I am set to gaming mode.

Any help massively appreciated.

EDIT: the issue was with fractional scaling. Turning this off in Mint led to normal performance again.

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Did anyone try the Mint 22 beta yet on the F13 AMD? I ordered the version with the new display etc. which will hopefully arrive soon. I’m still undecided between using Mint 22 and Fedora 40.

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Hi. I am a relatively new Linux user and I just installed Mint Cinnamon Edge 21.3 on my 13 AMD 7840U and everything seems to be working but I am having trouble setting up the fingerprint sensor. I followed the guide in the first post and I went to the GitHub page it linked which redirected me to this: Updating Fingerprint Reader Firmware on Linux for 13th Gen and AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Laptops

I followed these instructions exactly except where it said to run snap install fwupd, I instead sudo apt install fwupd however once I arrived at the section where it asked me to run this: fwupdmgr get-devices 1e8c8470-a49c-571a-82fd-19c9fa32b8c3
When I ran it, the resulting output did not match what was shown in the screenshot and did not list the fingerprint scanner at all. What can I do to get this working?

EDIT: I am also not sure if this is a OS issue or just my wifi right now but I am having an unbearably slow internet connection.

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Hello there. Fractional scaling in Mint is well known to be a performance killer. The situation may have improved over the last couple of Mint releases (21.3 and 22) but only marginally. I found in a video by Framework (but I lack the link - sorry) that the new(ish) 2K panels were designed to have a sufficiently high resolution that one could use integer scaling on Linux.

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FWIW I’m running linux mint mate 22 with no real problems. I’m on the FW13 AMD Ryzen 5 7640U with the 2.8k Display. So far monitor scaling isn’t a problem with the exception of a couple cranky applications (Java 11 and Dropbox), but the work arounds are tolerable. Everything else is automatically running nicely at integer scaling 2.0. Mint’s move toward newer kernels and the phasing out of Edge is timely for new Framework owners.

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Good to know.

So far monitor scaling isn’t a problem with the exception of a couple cranky applications (Java 11 and Dropbox)

In my experience the DropBox Linux application is poorly written.

Mint’s move toward newer kernels and the phasing out of Edge is timely for new Framework owners.

Indeed!

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Hi all

I’m running Mint 22 on a F-13 AMD. I’ve a 6.8 kernel and the latest firmware updates. The laptop does not sleep properly, at least upon lid close. (I have yet to test other ways of initiating sleep.) For, occasionally, the fans on the closed laptop go like the clappers. (I’ve installed this fan control software, but surely that is not the issue.)

I don’t think I have any magnets very near the computer.) Nor did I plug in the power whilst the laptop was asleep.

I see that here there is a troubleshooting script (but how does one use it?) and (same page) there is a kernel parameter (but what does it do?)

Also, apparently there is some Python script - but where - that one can run (via e.g. systemd’s ‘sleep’ directory?).

Can anyone advise? Thanks. EDIT: Perhaps this is the wrong place to post my problem.

EDIT 2: I tried the libinput command mentioned here and thus i can verify that the lid sensor is being triggered upon-lid-close. Indeed, when I told Mint to make lid-close shutdown the computer, that did work. in the thread that I linked just now, someone said that, under the Plasma DE, toggling the set lid-action worked; so I will see whether that works on Mint Cinnamon.