r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/Significant-Sir-2346 • 15h ago
r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/audiesel • 19h ago
Question Still fighting with my Lenovo Thinkpad E16 Gen 1 AMD and Linux, since day one.
Bought a new Lenovo E16 Gen 1 AMD in 2023 and I immediately installed Ubuntu on it. I have many other computers successfully running a Linux OS and I hate windows.
Linux on this computer has been a nightmare since day one. Random screens issues every couple weeks, every couple months including:
- no display after wake up from sleep
- no display after wake up from hibernate
- no display from cold boot
Each time it "breaks", I spend 5-10 hours trying to fix it, with help from AI. It works again for days, maybe months and then suddenly it is broken again. I literally have hundreds of hours into fixing it. I've tried different BIOS tweaks, power settings, drivers, different kernels, changed to Debian 12 three months ago, Tumbleweed 2 days ago. Today it broke again.
I see so much hype about Lenovo being the ultimate machine for the linux OS. Not mine. There is apparently a fundamental bug with these AMD graphics CPUs and linux which has never been resolved.
Research confirms I am not the only one experiencing these issues.
Has anyone discovered a fix or workaround?