Fedora 44 on MINISFORUM V3

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Hello there! Seibz here. I’ve recently tested Bazzite and Fedora Workstation on this MINISFORUM V3 tablet that I’ve received, refurbished, recently.

Bazzite had various issues with hardware, so I moved to Fedora. Fedora seems to work flawlessly with everything…except for brightness control? Odd.

It was recommended to check out this github repo for any tips and tricks for running linux on this tablet, however I don’t have any of the problems mentioned on there. Instead, its just brightness control via the buttons on the keyboard nor gnome brightness control working. I’ve installed brightnessctl as well and that hasn’t worked.

All of this is quite odd to me, because the brightness control was fully working in the Fedora 44 installer, but not now…perhaps that ran an older, more-compatible kernel?
Current fastfetch, will grab logs if anyone needs them.

             .',;::::;,'.                 s31bz@minifv3
         .';:cccccccccccc:;,.             -------------
      .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;.          OS: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
    .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:.        Host: V3 SE (1.0)
  .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;.      Kernel: Linux 7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64
 .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:.     Uptime: 10 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:.    Packages: 23 (flatpak), 2885 (rpm)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc,    Display (KDC0712): 1920x1200 in 14", 60 Hz [Built-in]
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc:    DE: GNOME 50.4
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc:    WM: Mutter (Wayland)
cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc;    WM Theme: Adwaita
ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc'    Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc;     Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc;      Font: Adwaita Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:,       Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,.        Terminal: Ptyxis 50.1
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'.          Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono (11pt)
:ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..             CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7735U (16) @ 4.82 GHz
 ':cccccccccccccccc::;,.                  GPU: AMD Radeon 680M [Integrated]
                                          Memory: 3.18 GiB / 13.38 GiB (24%)
                                          Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
                                          Disk (/): 22.27 GiB / 951.28 GiB (2%) - btrfs
                                          Battery (SR Real Battery): 69% (3 hours, 59 mins remaining) [Discharging]
                                          Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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Current bios info as well:

s31bz@minifv3:~$ ddc -t bios
Place your right index finger on the fingerprint reader
# dmidecode 3.7
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.4.0 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 26 bytes
Platform Firmware Information
	Vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
	Version: 1.03
	Release Date: 08/26/2024
	Address: 0xF0000
	Runtime Size: 64 KiB
	ROM Size: 32 MiB
	Characteristics:
		PCI is supported
		Firmware is upgradeable
		Firmware shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		Firmware ROM is socketed
		EDD is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
		UEFI is supported
	Platform Firmware Revision: 5.24
	Embedded Controller Firmware Revision: 8.10

Handle 0x0031, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
Firmware Language Information
	Language Description Format: Long
	Installable Languages: 1
		en|US|iso8859-1
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Fedora depends on the upstream linux kernel for hardware support.

That feature of your hardware will need to have support in the linux kernel to work it seems. You could try searching for linux kernel and your hardware to see if there is work ongoing.

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Brightness is often broken of Fedora, I have had it working, updated kernel and its broken again.

Glad the minisforum pc is working well, they do some fantastic little beasts.

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going to upgrade the system and firmware today and see how that goes

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upgraded the firmware as well as the kernel and it looks like whatever older kernel the installer for Fedora 44 (as of last week) was on, had a working brightness control

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Looks like brightness control is fully functional after awakening from sleep, odd workaround.