ROG Flow Z13 (2025) — Linux Setup Guide

Everything you need to get the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (2025, Strix Halo) running properly on Linux — kernel quirks, NPU drivers, iGPU compute, eGPU setup, and peripheral fixes.

Hardware: AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 | Radeon 8060S (RDNA 3.5, 40 CU) | XDNA 2 NPU (50 TOPS) | 64GB unified memory

What's covered

Doc	What
docs/PERIPHERALS.md	RGB keyboard, suspend, WiFi, audio (CS35L41), camera, OLED artifacts, fingerprint status
docs/NPU.md	XDNA 2 NPU driver, XRT install, AMD compliance wall
docs/GPU-ROCM.md	iGPU compute, Ollama, ROCm on Strix Halo
docs/EGPU.md	XG Mobile, supergfxctl, open-source XG_Mobile_Station

Quick start

# Install ASUS Linux tools (keyboard RGB, fan control)
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.asus-linux.org/ubuntu noble main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/asus.list
wget -qO - https://repo.asus-linux.org/asus.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update && sudo apt install asusctl

# Enable NPU
sudo modprobe amdxdna
echo 'amdxdna' | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/amdxdna.conf

Hardware at a glance

AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo) — 16 Zen 5 cores, 32 threads
Radeon 8060S iGPU — RDNA 3.5, 40 CUs, ~12-16 TFLOPS FP16
XDNA 2 NPU — 50 TOPS INT8, dedicated AI accelerator
64GB LPDDR5X — unified memory (shared CPU/GPU/NPU)
1TB NVMe SSD
MediaTek MT7925 WiFi 7
XG Mobile eGPU port (GC34 compatible)

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