Lenova S530 ryzen 7 2700u linux experiences

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Lenova S530 ryzen 7 2700u linux experiences

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Hello Everyone,

I received my new Lenova early Saturday and have been working on it since. Before I begin, I must say this is a wonderful machine. It is all metal, runs cool, fast, and quietly. The display is beautiful. The sound is good for a laptop. I am very impressed with it. It came with Windows 10 home version.

This morning after many trials I have everything working perfectly in Ubuntu 18.10. I started out with Linux Mint 19.1 beta. I had no trouble getting it installed dual boot alongside Win 10, since I already knew to disable secure boot in the bios and choose uefi and bios in the bios. When I plugged in the usb live disk of LM 19.1 beta I made sure to edit the grub line with nomodeset. It came up quickly but the track-pad did not work. Wireless was detected but was off and would not turn on. I read various solutions for LM and ubuntu which I tried and they did not work. I plugged in my usb mouse that I had to grab from my desktop and that at least worked instantly. After hours of trying this and that fix, I finally found out that ubuntu 18.10 had a working track-pad out of the box. I tried the live usb disk first and it certainly did work, so installed it. Then I discovered the wireless still would not turn on. I grabbed some of my usb wireless usb adapters that just work in my other linux machines and they did not work. Since there is no ethernet port on this machine, I used my smartphone for usb tethering and that would disconnect every 2 minutes for some reason, but persevered until I had everything updated.

This morning I somehow found the solution for the wireless. After I did this command in a terminal: echo "blacklist ideapad-laptop" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ideapad-laptop.conf , then rebooted, my wireless was found and turned on. Because the firmware was in the upgraded kernel in ubuntu 18.10 all I had to do was put in the ssid and password for the atheros wifi and it worked instantly. Joy!
inxi -Fxzd
System:
Host: xxxx Kernel: 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.2.0 Desktop: Gnome 3.30.1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81H1 v: Lenovo ideapad 530S-14ARR
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter>
UEFI: LENOVO v: 8PCN45WW date: 08/17/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.6 Wh condition: 45.6/45.5 Wh (100%)
model: CPT-COS L17C4PB0 status: Unknown
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 35133
Speed: 1370 MHz min/max: 1600/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1371 2: 1418
3: 1595 4: 1480 5: 1370 6: 1462 7: 1370 8: 1372
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.26.0 4.18.0-12-generic LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.18.0-12-generic
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-4:3
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 8.80 GiB (1.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPMUW-512G-1101 size: 476.94 GiB
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 217.75 GiB used: 8.76 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 273 Uptime: 9h 01m Memory: 15.28 GiB used: 1.13 GiB (7.4%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.2.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19

I found this for getting the track-pad working in earlier ubuntu and LM 18.04 , 19, 19.1.: sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics . One does this in the terminal then reboot. Supposedly worked for many. I did not need to use it since as I mentioned ubuntu 18.10 had a working track-pad.

I highly recommend this machine. I will eventually put lm cinnamon19.1 on it when a few things about it are more stable. Have lm xfce 18.3 on my desktop and lm 19 cinnamon in a vm.

Sincerely,
Marcia
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