Hacker News Reader

Comment by nafizh | Hacker News Reader

You have to go to bios and disable secure boot, then the battery doesn’t get drained anymore when the lid is closed. You also have to disable ps2 mouse emulation in bios, the mouse hypersensitivity goes away after that. I also enabled large text in accessibility so the text size is perfect and super high res with the 3:2 aspect screen, it’s fantastic.

I just bought the framework and running ubuntu 21.10. I had some of the problems you mentioned but the forum has solutions to many. It’s a new product, and specially with Linux, I knew there would be some problems. You have to be willing to solve these problems o/w you should stay away from buying new hardware from a startup.

View on HN

> You have to go to bios

IMO, a computer should work decently without needing to tweak the BIOS. If a feature is "experimental" and is likely to cause problems, it should be disabled by default.

I imagine it does work decently in Windows…it’s pretty standard to have to flip a few setting in the BIOS when installing Linux on a machine that came with Windows, best case is to have clear instructions on what settings need to be changed.

That said this is also the very first model of a device that’s intended to be DIY repairable…tweaking some BIOS settings shouldn’t be scary for someone buying what is effectively the beta version of a laptop that comes with a screwdriver so you can change out its parts.

For what it's worth, on most computers I've daily driven with Linux, tweaking the bios has been the norm. At minimum, I've had to disable secure boot on most distros.

I agree with the idea that it _should_ work decently without - but as of now, that is not the status quo.

Oh, please. I've had to disable Secure Boot on every Thinkpad I've ever had in order to run Linux on it without drama. It takes two seconds.

This is a computer you have to put together yourself (if you want to choose your hardware config). It comes with a screwdriver in the box. The logo is a gear. These are not-so-subtle hints that this machine is for tinkerers.

> disable secure boot, then the battery doesn’t get drained anymore when the lid is closed

Do you have a link to further elaboration and testing on this? Seems strange, and searching the forums is a bit difficult since the two terms get mentioned together a lot.

Secure boot currently results in the Linux kernel disabling hibernation for security reasons IIRC.

That is true, I had (perhaps incorrectly) assumed the previous commenter was talking about it affecting power consumption in “normal” suspend rather than hibernate. (I actually can’t use hibernate anyway because I use ZFS, but that’s a different story.)

Thank you for these directions! I'll give them a shot as soon as I get a chance and hopefully they'll make a difference!

awesome. i would be keen to get a little status report in a week if you could? others will then possibly be convinced to support the development and growth of Framework if they are searching HN through Algolia

Or they'll be convinced to stay away, depending on the outcome...

NB. Hopefully the 'no hibernate with secure boot turned on' is going to get sorted eventually - I believe Matthew Garrett has been working on it.

At the moment, the inevitable battery drain while asleep is quite annoying on modern laptops running Linux :(

Reply on news.ycombinator.com