Hi there folks!
I’ve used Linux for a good while now, but have no idea how to troubleshoot the current issues I’m having with my laptop at work. Let’s begin.
The laptop at hand is a HP EliteBook 845 14inch Notebook G10. A standard work laptop, with Windows pre-installed from It. This PC is “new” in the sens that I just got it from IT.
Laptop specs:
- CPU: AMD ryzen 5 7540U
- GPU: Radeon 740M Graphics
- RAM: 16GB
- Kernel: 6.11.6-2-default
Other notable settings:
- fast boot off
- secure boot off
- have encrypted the drive
FYI: These issues have been the same across multiple distros and DEs. I’ve tried, Bluefin, Aurora, Red Hat Workstation and now running OpenSuse Tumbleweed (KDE+Wayland).
The issues:
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The first noticeable issues were that the laptop fans are considerable louder when running Linux. I assume there is some preinstalled HP software to control this on windows, as they are completely silent on windows, but constantly noticeable on Linux.
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The second issue at hand is that the USB-C port doesn’t seem to charge the laptop properly. The laptop randomly dies after being on for a while WITH THE CHARGER PLUGGED IN. Very odd. This happens with both normal charger and the office charger (which is also the connection to external screen).
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Waking up from sleep is a terrible experience. The pc makes everything super slow and laggy. Opening a single application can take up to multiple minutes. The PC has to be restarted for this to be fixed. This happens on both X11 and Wayland.
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Connection to external monitor also seems to be causing issues and slowing the system down. Especially after pc has been in sleep mode.
These are the main issues I’ve ran into in only a couple of days trying Linux on this laptop and I don’t know what the causing issue is, or if the laptop simple isn’t ‘made’ to run Linux(?).
Would highly appreciate any tips or troubleshooting tips for this. Would love to be able to run Linux on the work laptop!
Edit 1: Now trying Ubuntu, so far so good! Will keep post updated.
Edit 2: Ubuntu seems to do well with this hardware/laptop.
Here is the output of lspci, but from a fresh Ubuntu 24.04.
$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14e8 00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14e9 00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea 00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea 00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ee 00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ee 00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea 00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h USB4/Thunderbolt PCIe tunnel 00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea 00:04.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h USB4/Thunderbolt PCIe tunnel 00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ea 00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb 00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb 00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14eb 00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f0 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f1 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f2 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f3 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f4 00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f5 00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f6 00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14f7 01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852CE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: KIOXIA Corporation NVMe SSD Controller BG5 (DRAM-less) c3:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 (rev c5) c3:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller c3:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h (Model 74h) CCP/PSP 3.0 Device c3:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15b9 c3:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ba c3:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 63) c3:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller c3:00.7 Signal processing controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 164a c4:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ec c5:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14ec c5:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15c0 c5:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15c1 c5:00.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Pink Sardine USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #1 c5:00.6 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Pink Sardine USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #2