Lenovo X1 Gen13 - Ubuntu 25.10 Kernel headers missing
Timo Aaltonen
timo.aaltonen at canonical.com
Fri Mar 27 10:30:27 UTC 2026
Andreas Bulling kirjoitti 26.3.2026 klo 18.58:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Ubuntu 25.10 on a Lenovo X1 Gen13 and ran into the problem
> that the external display doesn't work with a connected Lenovo docking
> station.
>
> This is a well-known problem and the solution is to manually install the
> synaptics DisplayLink driver.
>
> The laptop came preinstalled with kernel 6.17.0-1012-oem. However, I
> cannot manually install because the corresponding kernel headers are not
> available and they are also nowhere to be found.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas Bulling
>
25.10 doesn't have the oem kernel, so if it was preinstalled with
Ubuntu, it had 24.04. If you've upgraded it yourself, then make sure to
have 'linux-generic' installed.
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Timo Aaltonen
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