Maximizing Battery Life and Performance on Framework 13 7

[dimitris]

Power/battery life: See this (and scroll towards the recent posts there, there has been some movement dependent on distro):

[TRACKING] PPD v TLP for AMD Ryzen 7040

The recommendation from Framework is to use PPD (power-profiles-daemon) on Linux with the new AMD Ryzen 7040U board. According to the guide: For Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series configurations, you will absolutely want to use power-profiles-daemon for the absolute best experience. Do NOT use TLP. Without getting too detailed, there are things happening behind the scenes that require PPD for the best experience for our Linux customers. However, after reading the code/docs for PPD, i…

BIOS:

Firmware Version: 03.09

Latest is 3.18, but has a known issue with docks (and HID devices that hang off them) :

Framework Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.18 Release STABLE

Highlights Updated AMD PhoenixPI-FP8-FP7_1.2.0.0e. Modified the F2 key in the F12 Boot Menu to go to the setup menu instead of the settings menu to allow easier navigation to secure boot settings. Enhanced the Power On AC behavior, allowing the feature to work correctly without requiring the system to boot into the Operating System at least once for initialization. Enhanced fan detection logic within the Input Module app. Note: Once you update to 3.18, you can only downgrade to 3.06 or above…

FW is aware and tracking it:

Framework Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.18 Breaks Booting With Dock Connected

so you might want to only update to 3.17 until this is addressed:

Framework Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.17 Release STABLE

Highlights Fixed an issue where the BIOS update process could run on the wrong platform, resulting in the system being bricked. Fixed an issue where the Supervisor Password incorrectly displayed “Not Installed” after the user had successfully set the password. Fixed an issue where the system always displayed an “invalid supervisor password” error when the user set TPM to Hidden and set the supervisor password within the same BIOS session. Fixed an issue where the Wooting 80HE Keyboard did not f…

While we’re at it, this ADM graphics driver issue is still affecting folks (multiple threads here), Tracked upstream at:

7840U/780M: `*ERROR* [CRTC:83:crtc-1] flip_done timed out`, leads to frozen...

TL;DR: You might want to add amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 to your kernel command line for now.