A friend gave me his old HP Envy x360 convertible laptop, 15 inch screen, with a AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx. It has a 1TB drive (standard) and 8GB Ram. It was running fine.
I split the hard drive using Windows Disk Management, about 450 gigs on each side. I then dual booted Mint 20.3, making three partitions,
/root 30Gb
swap 16Gb
and /home (the rest, about 430Gb)
It boots fine, grub menu fine, loads fine, about the only thing is setup Firefox with my old bookmarks, and Thunderbird with my email, and put one file in the Pictures file so it will have a screensaver with my pictures scrolling through. Everything works fine, except it freezes, (and a few times specifically it freezes when I scroll through the pictures when I load them into Image Viewer.
From searching the net for the problem, I suspect:
drivers
BIOS/UEFI
Ryzen AMD issue
c6 New to me, (may have been overclocked, don’t know, I’ve never done that sort of thing)
Can’t imagine the amount of swap area is the problem as the recommendation was 1-1 ½ times the amount of RAM
Thanks in advance, I’ll try to post the inxi (saw that on another thread)
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System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-94-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15m-bq1xx
v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 83C6 v: 63.18 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.16
date: 01/26/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.8 Wh condition: 54.3/54.3 Wh (100%)
model: 333-54-2C-A LK03055XL status: Discharging
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2536.0001-battery model: ELAN0732:00 04F3:2536
charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 31941
Speed: 1368 MHz min/max: 1600/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1368 2: 1369
3: 1367 4: 1368 5: 1420 6: 1529 7: 1430 8: 1367
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.35.0
5.4.0-94-generic LLVM 12.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-94-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_pci v: N/A port: f000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 10.55 GiB (1.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 31.83 GiB used: 8.50 GiB (26.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /home size: 385.06 GiB used: 1.97 GiB (0.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
ID-3: swap-1 size: 11.18 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.4 C mobo: 40.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 41 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 251 Uptime: 33m Memory: 7.54 GiB used: 1.31 GiB (17.4%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17
inxi: 3.0.38 
