Hi guys,
This might be a big ask and not sure where to turn to as such. I’ve been on and off using my Metabox Edge laptop with different OS’s on it and for any to work when booting I need for the grub default:
acpi_backlight=vendor
and pci=noats
. I’m not familiar enough to understand exactly what they do to a great deal outside of the grub manual which gives a simple explanation for them. Aside from this, my laptop still seems to struggle at times and I can’t tell if it’s the hardware or using linux OS. This laptop was more or less my first time learning to use different OS’s but it’s getting quite frustrating when the laptop fails to do stuff compared to my desktop i.e. use a HDMI cable (screen glitches and freezes), sometimes it freezes for no reason, each large pacman install breaks the laptop and requires a live USB to fix it (I can’t tell if that’s normal or not given not used to Linux).
With all that as a background, my main question is if there is a way to fix / identify a solution for getting my laptop to be more usable than what it is. I feel I’m missing something in getting the laptop to work or I bought a laptop incompatible with Linux. I believe it to be the later but I’m hopeful it’s because I’m missing stuff for it to work. I’m not sure what ouputs to add to help find out what it could be.
sudo lshw -class system
james-edge
description: Notebook
product: NL5xRU (Not Applicable)
vendor: IT Channel Pty Ltd
version: Not Applicable
serial: Not Applicable
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-3.2.0 dmi-3.2.0 smp vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=Not Applicable sku=Not Applicable uuid=000096F0-0000-0010-8704-80FA5B999476
*-pnp00:00
product: Motherboard registers
physical id: 1
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=system
*-pnp00:01
product: AT Real-Time Clock
physical id: 2
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=rtc_cmos
*-pnp00:02
product: Motherboard registers
physical id: 3
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=system
*-pnp00:03
product: System Board
physical id: 5
capabilities: pnp
configuration: driver=system
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
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] Renoir Device 24: Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 7
01:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Phison Electronics Corporation E12 NVMe Controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c2)
05:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
05:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
05:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
05:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
05:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
05:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
Apologies if I should have put it in a different area.