Haha. Thanks! I totally forgot where to look. Didn’t remember at all that @glathe had the shared Google Drive. And I obviously didn’t search this thread properly.
EDIT: and now I have installed the latest kernel 6.15.0-rc6-jg-4-qcom-x1e (from this morning). All the usual things seem to work. Will have to try external display later when getting back to work.
EDIT 2: still working fine. No reboot, no blue screen since first boot with the new kernel 8 hours and 44 minutes ago.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 Snapdragon X Plus. I thought when I bought it that I could install Linux on it, but unfortunately that’s not the case. I have flashed the .iso as described in the first post and on a USB stick, Secure Boot is disabled. Bitlocker is not activated and as far as I can see it is not. When I open the boot menu and select the USB stick, it takes a few seconds and then Windows starts booting. It could also be that I am doing something wrong with the installation.
I really hope that I can use Linux in the future.
Hi @kaktus178 , welcome to the forum. The Ideapad 5 is… not supported yet, but interesting detail, the mainboard is the same as the Thinkbook 16 (also Snapdragon X Plus), which is actually quite well supported, but not yet on the ISO. I’m currently in the process of upstreaming this device tree. If you want to try out, you could:
If you have further questions, please consider the discussions forum I linked with the github repo. Would be curious if the device comes up.
Hello! Currently rocking an xps 9345 with the OLED touch screen and 16gb ram. Just installed @glathe kernel 6.15-rc6-jg-4. Seems pretty good so far other than one thing. My display brightness is maybe cut in half or so. I can turn the brightness down with no change until about the 20% level then the display cuts off completely.
edit: it does change brightness a little actually.
Also, the fingerprint scanner is registering now, but doesn’t seem to actually work.
I used the concept image on my XPS (32G OLED) to install (now upgraded to 25.04) and apart from the over-saturated colors (workaround in a former post above) I have no issues with it, brightness control and auto-dimming etc … I don’t have audio/camera and fingerprint reader with that kernel though (there is a way to make sound work but i didn’t bother with it yet) … my device does the random reboots (only when idling though and at most once a week or every two weeks) and I haven’t tinkered with limiting memory on it to see if that helps…
You should probably try the default Ubuntu kernel if the screen brightness issue bothers you and you could live with the current limitations, it works well enough for me as daily driver as living-room laptop currently
This means that as soon as you have succeeded, the ISO from the first post here should boot on the Ideapad. I can wait a few more weeks. I read your links and it sounds a bit complicated to me. Thanks for your work!
You can let me know immediately if you have any news. 
No Sound and HDMI Output Support on HP Omnibook 14 (Snapdragon X Elite) with Ubuntu 25.04 + HP USB-C Dock G5
I recently installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my HP Omnibook 14 laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite processor. While I was able to activate Wi-Fi (using the Qualcomm QCNFA765 adapter), I’m still having trouble with audio support and HDMI output.
System Details:
Laptop: HP Omnibook 14
Processor: Snapdragon X Elite (ARM64 architecture)
OS: Ubuntu 25.04 (latest updates installed)
Docking Station: HP USB-C Dock G5
What I’ve Tried:
Verified that the dock works fine on Windows.
Checked lspci, lsusb, and dmesg logs.
Installed and updated pulseaudio and pipewire just in case.
Attempted to find any custom Qualcomm audio drivers but couldn’t locate anything ARM-specific for this platform.
Enabled firmware updates using fwupd.
If anyone has:
I do not want to use Windows 11 on this device. I’m committed to running Ubuntu on it and would greatly appreciate any help making that fully functional.