On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 09:39:23 UTC, [email protected] wrote: > I have now tested Qubes 3.1 on a new ThinkPad T460s. Here are my results. > Most of these things were tested after I upgraded the kernel to 4.2.8 from > the unstable repo. > > Installation and BIOS/UEFI: > I had to disable secure boot in the firmware before my USB stick would boot, > just as expected. I could boot and install in both legacy and UEFI only mode. > Installation went smooth in all cases. > I disabled Intel AMT, WiGig, wake on lan, and other features I did not want, > still works fine. > This computer runs version 1.05 of the bios/firmware. > > Graphics and resolution: > After the first boot when I logged into both KDE and xfce there were serious > graphical glitches, but a reboot fixed this. The initial setup added the > `i915.preliminary_hw_support=1` option to the kernel arguments and with this > activated the glitches went away after the reboot. I still had some graphical > glitches when I tried using two external monitors at the same time, but > upgrading the kernel to 4.2.8 seem to have fixed this. > > I have the 2560x1440 monitor on this laptop and the text is small but > readable (subjective). In the long run my eyes will get weary from this, so I > would like to scale things up in my desktop environment but I was unable to > do that so far. > > I didn't try to get sound from the HDMI yet. > > Disk/filesystem: > In this laptop I have the 512 GB sata3 disk. I choose this over the NMVe > option because I have read that it can cause problems. > I have tried installing both unencrypted directly to ext4 as well as > encrypted (LUKS) with both LVM and Btrfs. Both work but Btrfs needs some > manual fixes. When I installed on Btrfs I was dropped to the emergency shell > on first boot and I got the exact same problem as in this thread: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/os-release/qubes-users/iM_ZI0zqLKE/6WqgI-gZBwAJ > But I could fix it by moving everything from `/sysroot/root` into `/sysroot` > with the help of this emergency shell/console. > > LAN: > Wired LAN worked out of the box. > > WLAN: > With the 4.1 kernel shipped with Qubes 3.1 the sys-net VM would not show my > wifi card in ifconfig. Upgrading to kernel 4.2.8 fixed that problem, and the > wifi worked flawlessly. > > Webcam: > I started the 'cheese' program in my sys-usb VM and I got the webcam working > directly. I think this was after the kernel upgrade to 4.2 so I'm not sure > how it worked before that. > > Sound: > The built in speakers and microphone work out of the box. Connecting > headphones is also painless, both the headphone speakers and microphone work. > When logging in to the desktop environment there is a short crackling noise > in the speakers, not too annoying though. > > TrackPoint: > The red trackpoint stick itself works out of the box, the sensitivity is a > bit low and I had a hard time to find a good setting, but it works. What work > less well are the buttons that go along with the trackpoint, the three ones > above the trackpad. Because of a bug/problem in the kernel a press of any of > these buttons immediately registers as both a press and a release. Thus it's > impossible to click and drag using these buttons. It's also impossible to > scroll using the middle button and the trackpoint. > The bug is described here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114321 > A patch has been submitted, but it's unclear what kernel version it will be > included in. It's probably going to take a long time before it's available in > Qubes unless you build your own kernel. > > Keyboard: > Volume and screen brightness hotkeys work. Keyboard works as expected (what > is there to test?). > > HVM: > I was able to install Ubuntu 14.04.4 in a HVM VM and boot it, worked fine. > > Suspend/sleep/poweroff: > There seem to be some power state problem on this computer. First of all, > when powering down the kernel stops at 'reboot: Power down' in the console > and the led on the power button shuts down but the computer and monitor is > still awake, I have to hold down the power button to actually kill it. > > Suspending the computer shuts down the monitor and the power button starts to > slowly pulsate, but I'm unable to wake it up after this. This is my biggest > problem with this computer at the moment. Any help to fix suspend would be > very appreciated. > > ----------- > > Kernel upgrade: > To upgrade the kernel I simply did the following in dom0: > $ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable kernel > $ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable kernel-qubes-vm > > ----------- > > Summary: > Many things work out of the boxWifi and stable graphics require a kernel > upgradeThe trackpoint is not very useful without the buttonsSuspend and > powering off is broken! > > I will try to monitor this thread, so if there is anything else you want me > to try out on this computer just post here. > > /Linus
Hi again, I selected the stable kernel as default again, it load the stable kernel now. 4.4.10-9 loops at Xen windows using your exact same configuration. Except by when UEFI Only selected, it doesn't boot at all, just bring me to select the Boot drive, and loops asking to select the drive even when I select it. 4.1.13-9 works as usual, using legacy for booting. Sleep problem. I will see what other kernel update can solve it. Regards, Gabriel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3d0f93b0-1283-4e0b-bcf5-cf319e8c41b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
