Ubuntu Concept ♥️ Snapdragon X Elite

do you want to talk over a more realtime medium? (I’ll be honest: I really hate discourse’s UI which is the only reason I dont check this thread) I’m on aarch64-laptops on OFTC (as programmerin-wonderland) or if you have discord, aliceindisarray
I think the SPI HID version which I had in my kernel was specialized for the SL7 as its from x1e-nixos/kernel/modules/spi-hid at main · scuggo/x1e-nixos · GitHub. You may want to apply the driver at https://patchew.org/linux/20260402-send-upstream-v3-0-6091c458d357@chromium.org/ instead

a little bit of a discussion shift, but has anyone here have problems with the graphics drivers?
I currently have some issues, I suspect are linked to those.
For example, blender without any enviromental variables doesn’t work right.

The same with a graphics project which works normally on another pc but not on my x1e t14s.

It seems to be a problem with openGL deferred rendering but I didn’t look too far into it.

And some applications crashed more often in the last few days, sometimes with a mention of vulkan problems.

Thanks, I am trying both the x1e-nixos and the upstream one. The issue seems to be in the pinctrl which I am checking and potentially some delays that this touchscreen require (looking at the ACPI table).

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Just got my Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 14Q8X9 today. Had trouble getting my usb drive to show up among other things. Success was using rufus-4.14_arm64 app on this Slim7/win11, and setting the usb drive for GPT (I missed that). And while booting via F12, it took a few seconds (my usb drive is slow) for the install usb drive to finally showed up in the boot menu. And off I went to install, all good ! All four speakers work, wifi/bluetooth work, display settings fine, and firefox seems happy. I have to test VLC and and few other things, but I’m so happy. Thank you all for the work done on the concept ISO.

With your audio, did the internal microphones work? I have a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5x (also 14Q8X9), but haven’t been able to make the internal microphone nor the HDMI to work. Bluetooth, internal speakers all work. My kernel is 7.0.0-32-qcom-x1e and 26.04-Resolute.

Actually didn’t test the internal mics, had no good setup/incentive yet. Currently on a path to bring the Ideapad 5 bringup forward. I’m testing on my 5 2in1, it has OLED, though. And working* backlight control. And full HDMI support. And fp reader.

Working as backlight level survives suspend/resume now. Still need to do a driver (probably) to get the backlight level range (11 bits) right, as Gnome sees 16 bits and you can only set it usefully with brightnessctl.
Regarding internal mics, there are hints on how to get it up. Need to follow-up on that one.

Let me know if you want me to beta test any of your patches. Would these patches/updates come via audioreach or alsa? I have Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5x OLED 14QX9 83HL, 32GB memory, 1TB. My kernel is 7.0.0-32-qcom-x1e and 26.04-Resolute.

some background: after some fits and starts, I installed via usb plucky-desketop-arm64+x1e-20250827_extended_jg_7.iso, and then updated, and upgraded to Resolute. I use the devicetree x1p42100-lenovo-ideapad-slim5x-oled.dtb in /boot/dtbs (with appropriate changes in /etc/grub.d/40_custom).

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What is the current status on the support for the base snapdragon x processor?
I’m asking for the Snapdragon X1 26 100 processor.
Interested to dual boot on my HP 16-fb0001qu.
I checked the qcom-firmware-extract script, which does not support this at this point of time.

I see most of the discussions focus on the x1e. Do you plan to help and support x1 base variant users?:folded_hands:

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Hmm have you tried the extended Resolute ISO? It has a boot option for the HP Omnibook X14 x1p42100 laptop, which should just about also boot the HP Omnibook 5 16. I wouldn’t say Purwa is fully supported, but it kinda is. Also on my repo, there is a discussion thread re these models. Did some patching to get the WiFi up, too.

Feel free to ask there or directly on Matrix.

I have been trying to get the Acer Aspire A16-11M, X126100 running but I installed Ubuntu and then reboot and it doesn’t install grub at all and it doesn’t even detect the Linux partition. Installed and kept my Windows boot as well. As seen from the image I tried some stuff in the terminal to, didn’t do anything. In the bios the only boots are the windows one and “unknown device“ which doesn’t even launch and falls back to windows. I’m really lost here, been trying for hours

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[ASUS Zenbook A14 UX3407QA X1 26 100]

Note I have that X1-26-100 SoC.

You might need to shrink your windows partition.

o shrink windows partition:
1. boot windows
2. use `chkdsk C: /f` : it will need to schedule on reboot
3. reboot to windows
4. Open 'Disk Management'
5. right click on OS partition and choose 'shrink volume' (?)

The distribution ISO did not work for me I needed this one IIRC.

To get wifi working I had to use this.

Also, I need to search and find the (debian) qcom-firmware-extract script to get my battery status queries working.

Good luck.

P.S. I turned off bitlocker and disabled security boot in the BIOS.

Installed Ubuntu, I can get to GRUB but when it enters Ubuntu it’s nothing but a backlight.

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Which device tree where you using for install… Acer Aspire 16 doesn’t have one IMO. You would need to specify the same in this grub entry, like

devicetree /boot/x1p42100-acer-swift-go14-01.dtb

but I really don’t know which one you used. This one would be the only Acer dtb that supports Purwa (x1-26-100), though.

Maybe this wiki entry could help for background.

Im using the Acer Swift Go 14 AI (SFG14-01), bc it was the only other acer, and it actually booted and installed. I didn’t try anything else expect the Asus Vivobook s15 which didn’t launcher propperly.

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Hey @matt-rw i see you mentioned keyboard backlight. I have a problem where on cold-start the keyboard backlight pulsates up and down in intensity over and over. The only thing that stops it is a boot into windows. I can then re-boot into ubuntu without problems. Once i shut the laptop down and cold start it the problem re-appears. It seems like windows has an interface to the keyboard backlight that linux is currently missing.I have a UX3407RA running 7.0.0-32 by the way. Everything else works pretty good otherwise, huge thanks to the developers :hugs:

@jaytersen. I see exactly the same behavior you do. Thanks for the response!

After the update it doesn’t start.

ThinkPad t14s 64G

Hello, I just wanted to ask if there is anything new for the X1P-42-100 models of the Vivobook S15, as the guides I last saw were really old and the graphics for it also stopped working above a specific kernel (I can’t remember which one right now)

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The Vivobook S15 x1p42100 device tree is upstream afaik. It should work with the normal Resolute image, it definitely does with my extended one (link was posted here frequently). For GPU acceleration you need to fetch the firmwares from the Windows partition, there’s several ways to do it. I have a script variant for this, too.

Current ToDo is verifying Audio setup. My newest kernel builds have a modified audio setup for 4 speakers, 4 dmic, headphone, 3 display port for the S15. Needs a dedicated topology and ucm config (pending).

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