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.


-- 
Timo Aaltonen
Kernel Team
Canonical Ltd.



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