The Ubuntu installation worked right away and I did not get a dark screen 
When I tried to install 0.147ubuntu1.1 manually I got:
warning: downgrading initramfs-tools (0.147ubuntu1.0+x1e0) to (0.147ubuntu1)
I will comment the bug.
Wifi completely broken on non-Ubuntu kernels. Tried 6.15 and 6.16 from @glathe’s Drive so far.
6.15.0-jg-4
6.16.0-rc3-jg-0
6.16.0-rc4-jg-0
6.14.0-35.35 from Ubuntu’s x1e PPA works perfectly fine. This is the dmesg logs: Ubuntu Pastebin
Does anyone have any idea what’s going wrong?
Still had issues on 6.14.0-35.35 on battery power. Much more stable/less packet loss after I turned off power management for wifi adapter. This is on Lenovo slim 7x.
varun@varun-yoga:~$ sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2
varun@varun-yoga:~$ iw dev wlP4p1s0 get power_save
Power save: off
@tobhe thanks for the info!!!
6.16.0-rc2-jg-1-qcom-x1e is running fine on my t14s gen6. Had it running for two weeks with no crashes anymore. This was maybe the most stable kernel build I’ve used on this machine, thanks @glathe.
Now I’m testing 6.16.0-rc4-jg-0-qcom-x1e with no issues so far.
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I had some back and forth with recent kernels/updates, but I can confirm that with 6.16.0-rc3-jg-0-qcom-x1e and initramfs-tools-0.147ubuntu1.0+x1e0, I now see the FDE password prompt!
Btw: external screen now usable again (see Screen dead with 6.15.* · Issue #35 · jglathe/linux_ms_dev_kit · GitHub if interested).
Interesting. I’m running 6.16.0-rc3-jg-0 on a Slim 7x (plugged in) and am not experiencing wifi problems.
Hello to everyone. Very impressed by the beautiful emulation around this subject.
To be honest, I am quite new to Linux (mainly experienced Mint through guidelines…) and I (boldly) bought a Snapdragon-based Asus Zenbook A14 (not equiped with Snapdragon X Elite but Snapdragon X1-26-100). I am trying to read and search tips through this huge topic, but I am a bit desperate.
The installation of Ubuntu Concept 24.10 (dual-boot with W11) runs well for me BUT I am stuck with two problems now:
-1/ the machine does not see any WiFi equipment
-2/ (probably related to 1/) I can’t install the “additional firmware files” as suggested here with the sudo-installation of qcom-firmware-extract : it points out “Unsatisfied dependencies : qcom-firmware-extract : Depends: dislocker but it is not installable”.*, just like in Ubuntu 24.10 Concept ♥️ Snapdragon X Elite - #104 by andwarnke
→ could these parts be downloaded and manually copied at the right place ?
Would someone have any idea to get further ? Thanks a lot.
For the record, one last thing is that the battery level is not supported (0%-error displayed).
edit: I tried and failed to boot on Ubuntu 25.04 ISO : after choosing “Try or install…”, I get “error: file “casper/dtbs/x1p42100-asus-a14.dtb” not found” and come back to the previous installation.
I figured it out. The AP had multiple BSSIDs broadcasting the same SSID. What should be happening is that the client should automatically pick the best one, but that was what was causing the issue. After picking the correct BSSID from network manager(and disabling wifi adapter power management), wifi is working really well even with the 6.16 kernel. It had packet loss issue even with 6.14 kernel, although it was lot more stable if I didn’t explicitly pick right BSSID with that version.
I also ordered a dual screen 2.5k x2 portable external monitor. It relies on MST w/ USB-C DP alt mode. I think changes from recent kernels should give it enough bandwidth. So let’s see how well it works.
Does anyone test it on Surface Pro 11 is the external keyboard work
Is anyone working on or tracking any progress regarding using the full 64GB RAM? My system has somewhat stabilised with recent kernels and 32GB RAM, but I actually do run OOM more and more often.
My work just requires these workloads and if it is clear that this will never be supported, I might need to switch devices.
Hello,
I’ve been checking this thread regularly for a few months, and I really appreciate the work everyone is doing to get this working.
I have a Vivobook S 15 (X1P-42-100 variant), and it’s a little rough checking the progress outside of this thread, so I’m just popping in to ask if there’s a working install ISO (even if partially working), and if there’s been anything in terms of progress from Qualcomm’s side in terms of official support (not from what I can tell on their website, but I’m asking just in case) that could lead to a generic installer that works for everything instead of laptop specific ones.
Thanks! I’d also appreciate it if anyone could point me towards other resources to follow to be up to date with new developments, I found some links in this thread, but everything seems pretty dead. Again, thanks to all the people volunteering their free time to work on this. If there’s a need of someone with my specific machine to test something out, let me know.
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Hi, welcome to the forum. “A few months” is sort of the time span where a lot of development can happen. For the Vivobook S15 there is at least a bootable image (no install ISO) that was used by a few people to bring up theirs. Meanwhile we also have dp altmode support with 4 lanes (which eases the external display situation a lot) and even x1-45 gpu support, but not ootb since you also need new Mesa for it to work. Image and installable kernels on my Google Drive, additional issues/discussions on my github repo (posted the links often here).
I have one of these now, too. It is rumoured that QCOM has made a firmware patch, there are some people waiting for it. That aside, it was confirmed that 64GB is usable when booting to EL2 via slbounce. Which normally kills the adsp/cdsp firmware, so its quite the drawback on a Laptop. However, there is a WIP patch from @sgerhold that keeps the adsp-lite firmware from UEFI boot alive and usable, which happens to work in EL2, too. This gives you battery charging and dp altmode, but no sound. I’m following that route, will do a test run in the next days to see if its viable.
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Forgive me my ignorance, what is YourDownoadedFilename.exe? Is it the downloaded files with win drivers?
Yes, I nuked my system and the only way now to extract the firmware would be to use the recover tool from Lenovo and installing windows again on it.
Saw that there is a new iso today: plucky-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250722.iso - however, there seem to be something wrong with it - it cant boot from usb.
I was able start it up anyway, but when I got to “try Ubuntu” it said something like: you have to load the kernel first.
Thanks, let me check that. It did work when I tested it before uploading.
EDIT: Still works on my T14s. Which device did you test? Slim 7x?
Yes, Slim 7x I tried with ventoy - normal and Grub2 and got the “load kernel first” message.
I thought that Ventoy was the problem so i wrote it the usual way straight to a usb, but it would not be recognized by any usb-c port - and not by usb-a in a adapter.
Maybe a corrupted file?
$ sha1sum plucky-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250722.iso
a14041fbac1849c024eafff8ae64f310966057b9 plucky-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250722.iso
I will redownload and report by updating this post
Edit: the new download boots just fine so yes, something wrong with my first download - sorry about that.