Ryzen 3000, Booting Linux, and You

FurryJackman · July 22, 2019, 6:59pm

You might need some kernel boot parameters. The E595 thread might help:

Lenovo E595 Ryzen 3700U Review and Linux Laptops & Netbooks

So as a fresh high school graduate going to college for a computer science program very soon, I like many others thought that now would be a very good time to purchase a laptop. My requirements aren’t too heavy. Since I want to run Linux and also run a windows vm in case the school needs me to run any windows only programs, I would need something with at least 2 cores. Fortunately both Intel and AMD have quad cores available in many laptops. I don’t play much games but it would nice for my laptop to be able to run some light games. Since I am running linux, I need something with decent integrated graphics as switchable graphics is not supported well under linux which means a laptop with a ryzen apu would be best. I decided to purchase an Lenovo E595 since Lenovo had just released this new model with the new refreshed Ryzen 3000 APUs. I bought the laptop with only the top APU and 1080p IPS display and cheaped out on everything else since I could save a few hundreds of dollars by upgrading the other parts myself and more with a coupon. I will refer to the out of box configuration as the ‘stock’ configuration and the configuration with the added parts as the ‘upgraded’ configuration. Also I must thank r/sacabonos from reddit for the tip to fix nvme more on that latter. [emrm2tsa7y331] TL;DR This is an amazing laptop. Much better than my old one. Lenovo fixed the Linux issues from the previous E4/585 but Linux setup needs kernel parameter to work with my nvme ssd. WiFi and BT just works. Also make sure you use dual channel RAM. ‘Stock’ configuration as purchased: APU: AMD Ryzen 3700U with Vega 10 Mobile graphics RAM: 1x4GB Samsung 2666 cl17 Storage: 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive Display: 1080P IPS 250 Nits ‘Upgraded’ configuration: RAM: 2x8GB HyperX impact 2400 cl14 Storage: 1TB Adata SX8200 pro. Subtotal was about $800 but I used the coupon THINKPADSAV20 which saves me 20% so my total without tax was around ~$650. An awesome deal! Along with it I bought an Adata S…