Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen AI 300 with Ubuntu 25.04

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hello,

Just a few words to say that I have installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my newly received Laptop 13 Ryzen AI 300, and it is working perfectly. The WiFi had some difficulties connecting during the installation process, but it eventually succeeded. you should add Ubuntu 25.04 to compatible linux distribution : Framework | Linux Compatibility on the Framework Laptop

Which Linux distro are you using?
Ubuntu 25.04

Which release version?
25.04

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

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After one week of intensive use with Ubuntu 25.04, I have to say it’s not working perfectly. It ran smoothly for about a week, but for the past two days, I’ve been experiencing complete system freezes (requiring a hard reset) and frequent micro-freezes (about 1 second), which are especially annoying when scrolling through a webpage.

I don’t know what changed these past 2 days. It’s weird.

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I’m still just a couple days into my build/use, but the system has been peppy and stable so far except for wifi on Ubuntu 25.04. I knew there would be some risk on support from Ubuntu since this was pretty bleeding edge hardware.

I was able to resolve my wifi stability issues by modifying /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf and changing powersave from 3 to 2 (disabled)

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FWIW, I installed Ubuntu 25.04 when I received my Framework 13 (Ryzen 9 HX 370) on 22nd April, initially loads of issues, now “mostly” working. Note that I have to turn Wayland off as it is incompatible with several tools I use for work, so I don’t actually know if Wayland is any better.

There’s another thread here about the display lockups; TLDR is update /etc/default/grub with:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x610”

(others have reported that 0x10 also works, I don’t personally know what the difference is)

I’ve since also upgraded to kernel 6.14.4 (using mainline: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.14.4/ ) that resolved a fair few issues, including dodgy WiFi connectivity issues.

I still get occasional crashes, I’ve noticed they’re mainly with videos (e.g. very occasionally watching YT videos in Firefox, or MS Teams in Firefox). As a workaround I now use MS Teams in Chrome. Note: I’ve only experienced these when docked to a Dell WD22TB4, so it MAY be related to that, I’ve not tracked it down tbh, as it no longer happens frequently enough to be too much of a pain.

In general, the laptop seems to run very hot, and the fans were spinning up a LOT. I’ve installed fw-fanctrl, and to make it easier to manage I have this Gnome extension to set the fan profile. The “Lazy” profile seems perfectly adequate.

I keep on top of my “Power Mode” setting a lot. I tend to run in “Power Saving” mode, the CPU doesn’t really go above 60 degrees, so fans rarely spin up anyway. If I need a bit more juice, I’ll switched to Balanced mode manually. I also set PercentageLow=98.0 in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf so when I unplug it switches to “Power Saving” mode automatically so I don’t have to remember (although I get notifications when ANY device is below 98% now heh). snapd is a PITA, randomy comes on and uses 100% cpu, sudo service snapd stop fixes it. I plan on removing snaps entirely soon.

Apart from the above issues, my audio works fine, a couple games I’ve tried in Steam work fine, Bluetooth fine, WiFi fine (since I updated kernel). Battery life I get around 5hrs (although that is fairly intensive use developing a Java application with ~10 Docker containers).

Maybe 2025 will be the year of Linux on the Laptop :laughing:

Hope this helps anyway… :slight_smile:

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That’s the best advice ever. I upgraded my kernel to 6.14.4 and it’s running so smoothly since then. No more freeze (major or minor), WiFi is working perfectly. Everything is just fine, except my printer with chrome but i think it’s chrome related as i can print from other apps like pdf viewer.

If you never did it (and are afraid of doing it), installing a new kernel is sooo easy.
1/ Download the 4 amd related files from here (for 6.14.4) : Index of /mainline/v6.14.4
2/ Install them : sudo dpkg -i *.deb
3/ You might need to deactivate secure boot from UEFI (as files are unsigned)
4/ Reboot and hold shift key
5/ Select “Advanced options for Ubuntu”
6/ Boot, done !

Even simplier, you can do it directly with the Mainline app : mainline [Wiki ubuntu-fr]

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