Acer Swift 3 SF314-42 and Ubuntu / feedbacks

kirmgrauza

Hello,

Has anynone is using Ubuntu with Swift 3 SF314-42? I've tried it two months ago. But had audio and sleep problems with latest Ubuntu (20.10) version. Have they fixed everything yet? 🙂

kirmgrauza

Okay, so time has based and with latest Ubuntu 21.10 version everything works out of the box!

kirmgrauza

Situation:

Ubuntu 20.04 - kernel is too old to support new Ryzen 4000 CPU.
Ubuntu 20.10 - struggle with AMD graphics. At the momement official Vega drivers are not available for Ubuntu 20.10.

billsey

That's not unusual for Linux and new hardware, it takes them a while to get drivers running and debugged. Give them a few more months and they should have it sorted.

kirmgrauza

Okay, so time has based and with latest Ubuntu 21.10 version everything works out of the box!

billsey

Good to know. We see this question for many new models, and waiting is almost always the fix.

kirmgrauza

Have to mention, that resume from sleep is not always working. Fix is to update Kernel to newest or wait for Ubuntu 22.04 with new kernel integrated, which is coming out on April.

kirmgrauza

Update:

There is a slight audio delay with Ubuntu 21.10 when speakers are inactive for some time.

It's easy to fix audio delay for this AMD Ryzen laptop that is using Ubuntu 21.10 by tutorial below:

In the terminal run sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa and find this section:

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### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

Change it to this:

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### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
# load-module module-suspend-on-idle

Save the file, then reboot and test.