Which CPU did you get? I’m getting the Ryzen 9 so it would be nice for someone with the Ryzen 7 mainboard to fill out the hardware section on that one.
I have the Ryzen 7 and plan to contribute to your wiki once I’ve got it up and running.
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@firelizzard I can confirm that the Ryzen 7 works (no real surprise). As far as I can tell, all the base components worked, however I think it might be a little more maintenance than I’m looking for atm so I may stick with my Arch install for the time being.
One thing I did notice is that performing my minimum battery usage test gave me a minimum power draw of 4.8W, which beats my Arch’s 5.4W by about 15%. This isn’t reflective of draw during a workload, but it’s interesting IMO.
Gentoo defaults to less features built into apps, so likely your gentoo system is running notably less processes as less was installed.
USE flags is probably my favourite part of Gentoo, and how you can get something that’s noticeably smoother if you remove features of systems that you don’t need.
Agreed, the USE system is amazing.
N/A Expansion Bay Shell Works N/A N/A N/A Just provides cooling and fills the bay.
Just a quick post to say I was amused to see that you can confirm the shell works 
(because it doesn’t do anything).
I’m writing this from Gentoo on my FW16. I think a distribution kernel would have worked, but dracut choked on my disk encryption setup and I gave up on that. genkernel worked like a charm and had no trouble managing my disk encryption. I’m currently still using genkernel. It didn’t enable everything but it got enough to boot. But I’d rather not have three thousand kernel modules so I’m working on eliminating all the junk to get down to the configuration options that are truly necessary (not including those that default to enabled). I updated the wiki with the components I’ve verified so far.
I do plan on going fully manual (custom kernel, custom initramfs) and I’ll make a user wiki page with the details but that’s going to take a while.
If you’re not aware, you can use the actual linux make files to generate a kernel config that only enables the modules that you’re currently using.
make localmodconfig
Granted, the risk here is overrestricting it, so if you plug something in there’s a chance the modules needed for it weren’t loaded.
That would have helped. I disabling everything I can, and then I’ll re-enable non-essential drivers such as bluetooth and the sound card later. That way I know what’s required for what. I posted the minimum config changes I believe are necessary for a bootable system with display, wifi, keyboard, and the touchpad.
@RandomRanger Would you run lsusb -s 002: -v and post the results (or DM me)? I’m getting some weird messages in dmesg and I want to see what shows up for you there.
Sure, but I’ll note that I’m currently running Arch rather than Gentoo
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 3.10
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceProtocol 3
bMaxPacketSize0 9
idVendor 0x1d6b Linux Foundation
idProduct 0x0003 3.0 root hub
bcdDevice 6.08
iManufacturer 3 Linux 6.8.1-arch1-1 xhci-hcd
iProduct 2 xHCI Host Controller
iSerial 1 0000:c1:00.3
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x001f
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0004 1x 4 bytes
bInterval 12
bMaxBurst 0
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0625 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB3.2 Hub
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 3.20
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceProtocol 3
bMaxPacketSize0 9
idVendor 0x05e3 Genesys Logic, Inc.
idProduct 0x0625 USB3.2 Hub
bcdDevice 34.04
iManufacturer 1 GenesysLogic
iProduct 2 USB3.2 Hub
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x001f
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 19
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Feedback
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
bInterval 8
bMaxBurst 0
Thank you. The results should be the same regardless of distro since all that’s doing is enumerating USB devices. Did the command complete quickly? On mine it stalls on 002:002 (the Genesys hub) for something like a minute before completing.
It was basically instant, yeah.
I have fiddled around and published the grub theme I worked on. This has only been tested on gentoo, but that’s probably fine. :^)
I’m unclear on the process of making an ‘official’ framework theme for grub, but that feels like a good starting point for anyone that would like to not focus on the technicals and just make it pretty.
I’m going to call the Gentoo wiki page basically complete. I can’t really say I’ve confirmed the GPU works because I haven’t properly tested it, but it’s recognized by the drivers so I’m pretty sure it works. It would be good to have confirmation that the hardware on the Ryzen 7 model is the same, but I don’t have one of those.
As far as I understand, there is no microcode available for the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS; is this correct?
amd_ucode/readme mentions several patches for the cpu family, but not for the particular CPU model. However, the wiki page mentions AMD microcode, so I want to be sure.
I used savedconfig to only store the firmware I actually need. According to those instructions, some googling and the README in amd_ucode I think there is currently no firmware available for the 7840HS. I’ll try to confirm this later and post my findings here.
I ran sudo dmesg | grep -i microcode once with all the firmware in sys-kernel/linux-firmware enabled and once with only a few options (which didn’t include any amd-ucode files).
The result was exactly the same both times. So I think that there are indeed no microcode updates for the 7840HS as of now.
The full output of sudo dmesg | grep -i microcode, if anybody wants to compare:
[ 0.564216] microcode: CPU14: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564218] microcode: CPU15: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564220] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564220] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564224] microcode: CPU4: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564225] microcode: CPU5: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564230] microcode: CPU13: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564234] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564234] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564237] microcode: CPU6: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564237] microcode: CPU7: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564240] microcode: CPU9: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564240] microcode: CPU8: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564241] microcode: CPU10: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564245] microcode: CPU11: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564294] microcode: CPU12: patch_level=0x0a704104
[ 0.564305] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.