Silverblue + lunarlake (Intel Core Ultra series 2)

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Hey folks,
Just got a Lenovo Yoga that has the new Intel Core Ultra series 2 processor in it. This is of course a new generation of processor. I don’t expect it to work out of the box.

The installation was able to start up, but the mouse was not working. Additionally, there was some issues with installing on UEFI.

I 'm reaching out to see if any of you have a similar laptop and would like to share their experiences. I’d love to help get this enabled, but hopefully I can have another go at getting this installed. Dual booting though with windows 11 is painful as you have to keep putting your bitlocker keys everytime UEFI is touched.

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Bleeding edge hardware meqns some will work done is working somehow and some dosent work and need to wait.

As I remember your hardware just came up about weeks ago I guess taking time to get kernel drivers ready is crucial. I know kernel 6.12 has some good results on latest AMD and Intel hardware, but still some limits on features

You could do more search arch wiki does there people resolved these issues and how and what kernel that gives more details on where is the support now

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Hi!

I definitely think that going to the latest 6.12 kernel will help immensely. But I will probably need to use something other than Fedora or wait till the new kernel has been updated.

sri

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Do we have ways to install fedora based on upcoming kernel? Meaning, can I get fedora silverblue or workstation that is based on kernel 6.12 that is already built as part of Q&A?

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It will come soon on testing repos so when it comes you can enable fedora testing repos

But that doesn’t help yet on installing from iso

I am waiting too for 6.12 kernels and images so I can get my lunar lake Intel core ultra 9 288V system running on fedora

It is waiting game still

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I did try using rawhide iso and it fails at trying to install the UEFI files. Even if I delete the UEFI partition and have it create it it fails. I had to do some run around to get my windows partition back.

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Following up on this.

Turns out that I needed a BIOS update and once that happened in January I was able to fully install Fedora. But the next issue is that sound doesn’t work.

The solution I have seen thus far is that I need to install the latest soc-firmware. I’m on fedora 42 beta (the sof firmware that is reported to work was released in October/November)

I’m still not able to get sound. The error I get is:

❯ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:279: no soundcards found...

I have uploaded my alsa information here:
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=8c2d734137a6faabf04cf4c3cd58efba0f4fde77

hopefully that is of use for anyone who has a passing knowledge of alsa and sound drivers.

I couldn’t figure it out myself.