Vega mobile at 100 percent use

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello everyone, i’m new here.

I have a laptop with Ryzen 5 3500U. It has two gpus: Vega 8 and AMD Radeon 540X.
Vega 8 is always on 100% of use.
Someone here knows what is the cause? A friend of mine has a identical laptop e it has the same issue, even with other distro (OpenSUSE TW, Fedora and Pop OS), with other kernel e Mesa.
Another friend has a similar laptop (running Fedora), but without the dedicate gpu, and has the same issue.
In a group a find a user with the same issue, but with Ryzen 3 mobile of 3000 series.

My laptop is running Endeavour OS, with kernel 6.1.60-1-lts and Mesa 23.2.1.
Same issue when running the latest stable kernel.

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What happens if you run it with the latest 6.5.9-arch2-1 kernel ?
(drivers)

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how do you know it’s using 100%, I have an 5700g with some vega gpu, I didn’t notice any issues

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I use programas like nvtop, Resources and Mission Center.

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Same issue.

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Do you have errors in your journal ?
$ journalctl -g error -b 0

And since recent laptops that get put up on the market get there BIOS updated more often, can you check for your model number at your manufacturer “support” page ?

And if it’s in need of a new BIOS software can you update it ?

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Yes, there is some errors.

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I can try it!

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Yes please. Thank you.

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The BIOS update is necessary?

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If it’s outdated.

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It’s outdated!

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Version installed is 1.07. I downloaded the file and saw this:

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It’s for Windows. The README file:

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use Hirens Boot CD to install the bios update. I do that with my Lenovo since they don’t offer anything but windows installs.

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I will have to burn a CD to install the update?

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It’s going to get rid of a lot of red in your journal.

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Thank you for the tool. I have a Lenovo e580 that will never see windows again.
Appreciated.

@Francehelder
USB:
https://www.hirensbootcd.org/usb-booting/

You can use that command: dd

example:
$ sudo dd if=/path/to/your.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync

-where your /dev/sdX the X is your usb key: example sda or sdb etc.

source:

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If you don’t have a working Windows on that system than probably yes you will need to. However it is something that will only be needed on rare occasions.

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When did this problem start for you? Yesterday I have updated linux-firmware and amd-ucode, almost every game’s fps went down by 30fps. I rolled back the system with timeshift and everything works well again.

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Two years ago, the gaming performance down after an update on Ubuntu. New Mesa and kernel.

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Where and how can we report firmware issues? The firmware is from september, it’s weird that no one caught it since then. Is it a really bad idea to put amd-ucode and linux-firmware in IgnorePkg?

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The procedure to install the new BIOS version is to run a Windows system from the pendrive and run the executable. But every time I turn on my laptop this screen appears. It’s simple to exit it. Because of that I ignore it.

However, this apparently is preventing me from running the system on the pendrive and installing the new BIOS.