This wiki page says that disabling PSR is unnecessary if you use linux-mainline-um5606 and linux-firmware-amd-staging-um5606-git. When using those, it doesn't seem to freeze/hang anymore with PSR enabled; however, I get terrible performance, especially when playing videos. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there a solution for this or should I just keep PSR disabled for now? Frogmech (talk) 21:31, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

As I said on the Github, I'm unable to repro, but maybe there's someone else with the same problems. T1c (talk) 22:47, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

It seems that by disabling PSR-SU and using legacy PSR instead, the freezes go away and you can still have PSR. See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3931, I'll edit the page Samyrasmy (talk) 04:49, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

I updated the new mesa drivers and it seems the sinks were renamed and now the sound fix doesn't work

❯ dnf list --installed | grep mesa

mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64                              24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-filesystem.x86_64                               24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-libEGL.x86_64                                   24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-libGL.x86_64                                    24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-libGLU.x86_64                                   9.0.3-5.fc41                        anaconda

mesa-libgbm.x86_64                                   24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-libglapi.x86_64                                 24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-va-drivers.x86_64                               24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64                           24.2.7-1.fc41                       <unknown>

❯ pactl list sinks

Sink #55

 State: IDLE 
 Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_c4_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink 
 Description: Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller Speaker 
 Driver: PipeWire 
 Sample Specification: s32le 2ch 48000Hz 
 Channel Map: front-left,front-right 
 Owner Module: 4294967295 
 Mute: no 
 Volume: front-left: 49152 / 75% / -7.50 dB, front-right: 49152 / 75% / -7.50 dB 
 balance 0.00 
 Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB 
 Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_c4_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink.monitor 
 Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec 
 Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY 
 Properties: 
 alsa.card = "1" 
 alsa.card_name = "HD-Audio Generic" 
 alsa.class = "generic" 
 alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0294,10431df3,00100004" 
 alsa.device = "0" 
 alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" 
 alsa.id = "ALC294 Analog" 
 alsa.long_card_name = "HD-Audio Generic at 0xdc5c0000 irq 108" 
 alsa.mixer_device = "_ucm0003.hw:Generic_1" 
 alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC294" 
 alsa.name = "ALC294 Analog" 
 alsa.resolution_bits = "16" 
 alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" 
 alsa.subdevice = "0" 
 alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" 
 alsa.sync.id = "00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000" 
 api.alsa.card.longname = "HD-Audio Generic at 0xdc5c0000 irq 108" 
 api.alsa.card.name = "HD-Audio Generic" 
 api.alsa.open.ucm = "true" 
 api.alsa.path = "hw:Generic_1" 
 api.alsa.pcm.card = "1" 
 api.alsa.pcm.stream = "playback" 
 audio.channels = "2" 
 audio.position = "FL,FR" 
 card.profile.device = "0" 
 device.api = "alsa" 
 device.class = "sound" 
 device.id = "51" 
 device.profile.description = "Speaker" 
 device.profile.name = "HiFi: Speaker: sink" 
 device.routes = "1" 
 factory.name = "api.alsa.pcm.sink" 
 media.class = "Audio/Sink" 
 device.description = "Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller" 
 node.name = "alsa_output.pci-0000_c4_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink" 
 node.nick = "ALC294 Analog" 
 node.pause-on-idle = "false" 
 object.path = "alsa:acp:Generic_1:0:playback" 
 port.group = "playback" 
 priority.driver = "1000" 
 priority.session = "1000" 
 factory.id = "19" 
 clock.quantum-limit = "8192" 
 client.id = "49" 
 node.driver = "true" 
 node.loop.name = "data-loop.0" 
 library.name = "audioconvert/libspa-audioconvert" 
 object.id = "55" 
 object.serial = "55" 
 node.max-latency = "16384/48000" 
 api.alsa.period-size = "1024" 
 api.alsa.period-num = "32" 
 api.alsa.headroom = "0" 
 api.acp.auto-port = "false" 
 api.alsa.card = "1" 
 api.alsa.use-acp = "true" 
 api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio1" 
 api.dbus.ReserveDevice1.Priority = "-20" 
 device.bus = "pci" 
 device.bus_path = "pci-0000:c4:00.6" 
 device.enum.api = "udev" 
 device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci" 
 device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_c4_00.6" 
 device.nick = "HD-Audio Generic" 
 device.plugged.usec = "7340185" 
 device.product.id = "0x15e3" 
 device.product.name = "Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller" 
 device.subsystem = "sound" 
 sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:c4:00.6/sound/card1" 
 device.vendor.id = "0x1022" 
 device.vendor.name = "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]" 
 device.string = "1" 
 Ports: 
 [Out] Speaker: Speaker (type: Speaker, priority: 100, availability unknown) 
 Active Port: [Out] Speaker 
 Formats: 
 pcm

Rambontanga (talk) 16:16, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Not sure why you're showing your installed packages for mesa, which is graphics drivers... but as you seem to be on Fedora, it may be best to ask on a Fedora forum rather than an Arch one. T1c (talk) 16:19, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Mainly, because of the laptop model. Thought some other people might be in similar situation. Rambontanga (talk) 16:42, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

It's an Alsa issue, that ended up only affecting Fedora. I added the notice to this wiki page, but Arch doesn't even ship that Alsa version yet. https://github.com/BNieuwenhuizen/zenbook-s16/issues/10#issuecomment-2486558176 T1c (talk) 00:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Rambontanga (talk) 06:57, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Wiki states that Currently linux-mainline-um5606^AUR is needed to get audio fully working without sounding tinny but nothing I do seems to work. It used to work with the workaround until the alsa update broke it

I have done tried all I know, even a clean install but I just cant seem to get the sound to work.

Is the sound meant to work automatically after installing linux-mainline-um5606 or is there something I am missing?

Thanks Kad07 (talk) 22:38, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

It should work "automatically" since it's now fixed in the actual Alsa driver. Please ensure you don't have any Pipewire configs attempting to alter your audio routing. T1c (talk) 22:40, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for this. So far as I know pipewire is using whatever default configs it came with because I have not changed anything since doing the new install. I could try reinstalling pipewire and see if it helps. Kad07 (talk) 23:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

On the Asus website they say this laptop has a HDR display, however according to KDE HDR is unsupported. Does anyone have HDR working? Noah24 (talk) 07:40, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

I have not experienced any "wireless unstability" using this laptop with linux-6.16. Could this whole section be removed as the unstability situation seems to be resolved ? From a user perspective Wi-Fi is completely usable and works as intended. Ex Host (talk) 01:30, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Please read the disclaimer regarding that section. It *may* be needed for some users but not for others. T1c (talk) 01:47, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the prompt reply. The section doesn't state why Wireless *may* be unstable, or what portion of users may be affected and doesn't provide any troubleshooting steps to diagnose/fix the issue. If users are using the exact same hardware and running an up-to-date Arch install, it might be valuable to document why some users may still experience instability.

As I have not experienced any instability I surmised that the problem had been fixed upstream at some point. A firmware patch was recently released for the mt7925, and was made available on the Sept 17th release of linux-firmware .

I'll also note that I have only used Wi-Fi 6/Wi-Fi 5 access points so far, but maybe there's still some instability with Wi-Fi 7? Ex Host (talk) 10:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)