Sorry if it is a stupid question, but how do I boot my Slim 7x into EL2? I see that there are el2 kernels now from @glathe , but somehow I missed how to make it boot into EL2
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Hi, to connect to the Internet during the Ubuntu installation without Wi-Fi, you can try connecting to the Internet by sharing the connection from a smartphone via USB. That worked perfectly for me.
Cache invalidation and naming thingsā¦ The kernel runs fine on EL1, and does so here on most boxes. It has additional patches from @sgerhold to support retention of the adsp-lite firmware on x1 boxes when booted on El2 with slbounce, enabling things like battery management and dp altmode support on the type-c ports. So, once I have this integrated into my 6.17 branch, the -el2 suffix will be dropped. And I already promised to do an updated wiki entry on my repo how to set up slbounce, which has gotten way easier than before.
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Hi.
Recently, Iāve noticed some strange things.
When I try to execute
sudo qcom-firmware-extract Iām getting an error:
Get:1 /tmp/fwfetch.WWDZ22pw/qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15_20250921_arm64.deb qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15 arm64 20250921 [10,5 MB]
(Reading database ... 342097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15_20250921_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15 (20250921) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/fwfetch.WWDZ22pw/qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15_20250921_arm64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK/vivobook-s15/adsp_dtbs.elf', which is also in package qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-asustek-vivobooks15 (20250701)
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/fwfetch.WWDZ22pw/qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-x1e80100-asustek-vivobooks15_20250921_arm64.deb
So, how can I fix it?
And it doesnāt matter whether I run just qcom-firmware-extract, or wheather I run qcom-firmware-extract <path_to_dir_with_file_with_firmware_that_downloaded_from_asus_site>
My device is - Asus Vivobook S15.
One more question.
Iāve just tried and tested utilization of GPU and NPU abilities under Windows using Python. Just a simple summing big vectors many times and solving regression - also many times.
How did I find out that really NPU or GPU was involved? I saw this in the Task Manager in relevant sections.
The question is - will be relevant sections in Linux System Monitor for NPU and GPU? How and where can I find out how my NPU or GPU is utilizing now?
I have installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my HP Omniboox with Snapdragon X Elite and I still havenāt managed to make mi wifi work, any tips? Iāve already ran sudo apt install qcom-firmware-extract
and sudo qcom-firmware-extract.
Not sure, might be a bug.
Can you run dpkg -L /lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK/vivobook-s15/adsp_dtbs.elf, that should return the name of a package. Knowing the name would be helpful to figure out whatās wrong. Another thing you can try is backing up your firmware from /lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK and then removing this package and running qcom-firmware-extract again.
I think this might have been caused by a change in qcom-firmware-extract that changed the name of the resulting package.
Hi @pepposcotti,
Please try the troubleshooting instructions at Network Connection Troubleshooting
If that doesnāt get your wireless working, then please open a new topic for your problem. Start at Welcome To Support And Help
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This is a heck of a thread.
Whatās unclear is if any of the devices from the first post are actually fully functional and can be used as a daily driver.
I have been daily driving the Thinkpad t14 for about a year now with no problems, and about 4 months now without any windows partitions, it really comes down to what you think functional enough is. I know a number of people who are happily using many other x elite laptops. I can do everything I could ever want it to do. Plug in external displays pair to my bluetooth headphones, use internet and lots of apps as well as development tools.
The upside is the Raspberry pi community has done a lot of the heavy lifting already so apps are not a problem. The downside is box86 does not work.
Its just perspective, for me the killer battery life is worth not having speakers, truth is I donāt use speakers on any laptop I have ever owned.
And my development pipeline can be done entirely with sublime, a webbrowser and g++.
What do you need out of the laptop?
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I have ASUS Vivobook S15 with X1E78100.
There are two things, or rather the lack of them, that prevent me from using Vivobook S15 on daily basis:
- Internal audio
- Camera
Other things is pretty good.
Also, Iād like to have an opportunity to use NPU in linux. Also, I would like to see the NPU utilization in some utilities like system monitor or something like Resources or Mission Center.
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psarapkin@psarapkin-ASUS-Vivobook-S-15-S5507QA-S5507QAD:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -L /lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK/vivobook-s15/adsp_dtbs.elf
dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but '/lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK/vivobook-s15/adsp_dtbs.elf' is not: illegal package name in specifier '/lib/firmware/updates/qcom/x1e80100/ASUSTeK/vivobook-s15/adsp_dtbs.elf': must start with an alphanumeric character
Use --help for help about querying packages.
I just want to mention that I am almost as satisfied. I daily drive my T14s too, but I do miss camera support sometimes due to my need of online supervision from time to time. I can only use 32 of my 64 GB RAM, but that doesnāt matter for my use case (yet anyway). I do my heavy computations on a HPC.
Helped for me to remove package
sudo dpkg --remove qcom-x1e-firmware-extracted-asustek-vivobooks15
How are you getting killer battery life? I canāt for the life of me get the cpufreq driver to work.
Any updates on support for the Surface Pro 11?
Been hoping to receive some advise on the audio distortion and incompatibility issue, on the Ubuntu 25.04 (ARM) VM.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Iām far from an expert in this area, but as I understand it our best hope right now for Surface Pro 11 support is the work being done in this repo.
Though from what I understand things have stalled since the first up-streaming attempt. Sadness as I too own an SP11 and my plan all along was to go Linux on it.
Is it safe to use external usb sound cards like Creative SB G3? They seem to work quite well
I am using an Asus Vivobook s15 on 25.10 and the fans donāt spin up on heavy load. Is there a fix?
Iām seeing a similar issue on a dell XPS 13, seems to run really hot, lately pushing it causes reboots and then in grub the fans run full speed and i let it sit tell they spin down. Ubuntu 25.10 installed.