I am a used ArchLinux user, who installed Fedora KDE Plasma on my laptop. I really like Fedora. Though, as per usual, not all packages are available, specifically in this case framework-system, which provides tools to control battery charging for Framework Laptops.
Hence, as it seems it is not possible to control the battery charge on Framework Laptops via the integrated KDE power management, and that I need to either to set the battery charge limit in the BIOS (which failed for me today), or install framework-system via Terra repository ( GitHub - FrameworkComputer/framework-system: Rust libraries and tools to interact with the Framework Computer systems · GitHub ).
Though, as I am new to Fedora, I am concerned about to add Terra as a repository, as I am not sure if this will integrate and affect the system. In ArchLinux, I could use AUR, which gives me more control to just to compile and install a certain program/library. It is seems Terra just integrates in to my dnf system, maybe I am wrong with that though.
I have currently set the battery charge limit in bios to 60%, but as I wrote earlier, it failed and now is charging above it. I have now set to the option of the Battery Extender to off, as I read this may cause the charge limit to fail. So if this works I will probably will use it.
But it would be nice to be able to change the charge limit in the OS. So the options is to:
- Install terra repository (which I am hesistant to do)
- Download, compile, and install framework-system manually
- Use any other solution, maybe it is possible to control the battery charging in the KDE power management somehow? I have tried this:
$ sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/fw_use_cros_charging.conf <<< “options cros_charge_control probe_with_fwk_charge_control=Y”
Options for setting charging limits in the KDE power management now appears, but it does not affect the charging of the battery at all, so that did not work. - Hoping that setting Battery Extender to OFF in BIOS will remove the problem, but then I have to go into the BIOS to change the charging limit when I want to.
I am using the Framwork Laptop 16 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M.