Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen AI 300 with Ubuntu 25.04

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Here is the bug tracking the fix for that issue.

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After trying a few of the things in this thread, I thought I’d summarize the combo that’s working best for me so far:

  • Linux kernel 6.15.2 – seems to fix the full-system crashes
  • Grub AMD hack-flags, same as on the framework 16
    • add to /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10"
    • might as well comment out style=hidden and change the timeout to 5 while you’re in here, so you can pick various kernels to try at boot, if you need to later
    • sudo update-grub

The AMD hack-flags seem to have the same effect as on the 16: they prevent the GPU from hard-crashing and getting reset. (The symptoms of this are a frozen mouse cursor and/or blank screen for a few seconds while the kernel tries to recover.) I assume the trade-off of the fix is that some GPU features are disabled, but at least nothing locks up anymore.

The 6.15.2 kernel seems (so far, after a few days) to fix the bug where all of gnome would flip out and crash. No idea about that one, but I wasn’t having luck with the various 6.14 kernels.

There is still a really frequent/common “flicker” if the GPU does anything moderately taxing like play a video. But no more crashes.

It sucks that the AMD hardware is so buggy/flaky, and that the new generation has the same bugs as the 16 plus some exciting new ones. Unless something radically improves, I think this will be my last AMD chipset laptop.

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I just got mine today, an AI 5 340. I downloaded Ubuntu 25.04, and to my surprise, literally everything worked without any issues whatsoever! I did run updates first thing after the installation. The BIOS was current.
I will actually go so far as to say that this was probably the smoothest setup of a new laptop that I have experienced so far :slight_smile:

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25.04 also worked without issues (except a screen flicker sometimes on Firefox) – until it upgraded the kernel from 6.14.0-15 to 6.14.0-22 a few days ago. Now the wifi won’t connect.

(Also noticed one weird issue: Zoom can’t do backgrounds.)

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I had a weird thing going on with WiFi. It could not find any printers or scanners on the local network, but I could manually specify the printer name and driver, and then it worked for the printer. Then I noticed in the WiFi list that it had created “ssid 1” and “ssid 2” in addition to “ssid” and it was connected to “ssid 1”. I looked into properties, IP addresses etc. looked similar. Then I told it to connect to “ssid”, and now it could find both my printer and scanner!

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Seems to be fixed on 6.14.0-23

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Was on Mainline kernel 6.15.2 for Ubuntu 25.04. WiFi kept disconnecting still.
Changed back to 6.14.0-23 kernel from Ubuntu, seems to be working great over the past 3 days, flawless now.

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Does Ubuntu 25.04 work for you without freezes on the new kernel?

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I have had it up and running for three weeks now, without significant issues, but I think that some people have problems with the WiFi, especially with mesh:
Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series) Wireless PSA - Framework Laptop 13 / Linux - Framework Community
I have a BGW320 router from AT&T.

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Yeah it’s been great, running it for a week. I’ve literally had 1 WiFi drop out through constant use for like 1-2 seconds.

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