After 3 evenings of testing and hundreds of permutations, I finally found a setting that works to make suspend works on my laptop. Current laptop: Lenovo Thinkbook G2 ARE with AMD processor 4700u (renoir)and 40GB ram Fix suspend and resume to find your kernel version, type For kernel 5.19, 6.0 and newer add the boot […]
So today, Linux released the latest Linux kernel to the world, version 6.0. I was curious to see if the suspend issue was fixed with mobile AMD processors and chipsets. It was breaking the old method but I found a new way to make it work. NEW FIX click here for the new fix
After some tests and notifications from other users, the kernel 5.19 seems to break the iommu=soft that fixes the suspend issue. I found a new parameter to make it work NEW FIX click here for the new fix
ArchLinux has several graphical package managers like Pamac. When you’re already in the shell, it’s faster to stay there. One of the annoyance I often have is that when I search for a package, I do a search, then filter the results with GREP, then sort the results to a pager and then try to […]
Update 2022-09-09 : I corrected a few typos This article will unlock the full power of your processor. The laptops these days seem to be locked out of their full potential. NOTE: If you want to investigate on your machine, I recommend adding the following tools. Arch : pacman -S btop cpupower turbostat Ubuntu / […]
Lenovo just released a new firmware for the ThinkBook 15 G2 ARE AMD: FACN31WW(V1.14). Note 1: This firmware doesn’t fix the suspend issue, refer to my previous post for how to fix it. Note 2: If you run Linux only on that machine, refer to my previous post about how to update. Summary of changes […]
If you have this motherboard or anything using the same ACL4080 chipset, you may notice that your audio won’t be working. This can be fixed through a simple mod. Reboot your computer, when you have the boot menu of your distro, choose to edit the boot parameters. On the line that starts with Linux add […]
Some laptops from Lenovo, like the ThinkBook, aren’t updatable from Linux. Lenovo could provide a way to install a new Linux firmware but they don’t. Lenovo only provides a method to update it from Windows. If had time to kill and If you had kept a backup of the Windows install that came with your […]
UPDATED FOR KERNEL 6.0.0 the fix for version 6.0 is in a new post. UPDATED FOR KERNEL 5.19 the fix for version 5.19 is in a new post. If you bought the Lenovo ThinkBook 15 G2 ARE with the AMD processor you probably noticed that the suspend option is not working in Linux. After some […]
This 2021 review is about the Lenovo ThinkBook 15 G2 ARE Laptop (Type 20VG) I recently bought. This laptop is using an AMD processor. Here are the configuration details Processor: AMD® Ryzen™ 7 4700U Processor (2.00 GHz, up to 4.10 GHz Max Boost, 8 Cores, 8 Threads, 8 MB Cache) Operating System: Windows 10 Pro […]