On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 8:58:02 AM UTC-6, Eric Shelton wrote:
>
> As a followup to the instructions for installing on R3.0 (
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/IllB1PaX5tA/-YA1-h59AwAJ), 
> here are instructions for getting Skylake's integrated GPU working with 
> Qubes R3.1 rc1:
>
> 1) Boot the R3.1 rc1 install ISO.  At the first screen, press tab.  Before 
> the last set of three dashes, add 'i915.preliminary_hw_support=1'.  For 
> example, the entire line might read:
>
> > mboot.c32 xen.gz console=none --- vmlinuz 
> inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes\x20R3.1-rc1\x20x86_64 quiet rhgb 
> i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 --- initrd.img
>
> Press enter to boot, then run the first phase of installation as normal.
>
> 2) On the first boot after all of the packages have been installed, at the 
> first screen press 'e'.  At the end of the line beginning with 'module   
> /vmlinux-4.1.13-6.pvops.qubes.x86_64, add the same string as in step 1 - 
> 'i915.preliminary_hw_support=1'.  For example, the edited line would read:
>
> module  /vmlinuz-4.1.13-6.pvops.qubes.x86_64 placeholder 
> root=/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root ro rd.lvm.lv=qubes_dom0/root 
> vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 
> rd.luks.uuid=luks-8225d7d8-7a74-4647-927b-7892d3796801 
> rd.lvm.lv=qubes_dom0/swap 
> rhgb quiet i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
>
> Press Ctrl-x, and then complete the install as normal.
>
> 3) In a dom0 console (for example, System Tools->Konsole (Terminal)), edit 
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (for example, 'sudo vi /boot/grub2/grub.cfg').  Add 
> 'i915.preliminary_hw_support=1' to the end of the two lines beginning with 
> 'module   /vmlinux-4.1.13-6.pvops.qubes.x86_64'.  Basically, they will both 
> look like:
>
> module  /vmlinuz-4.1.13-6.pvops.qubes.x86_64 placeholder 
> root=/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root ro rd.lvm.lv=qubes_dom0/root 
> vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 
> rd.luks.uuid=luks-8225d7d8-7a74-4647-927b-7892d3796801 
> rd.lvm.lv=qubes_dom0/swap 
> rhgb quiet i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
>
> 4) Go to System Tools->System Settings->Power Management, and 
> diable/uncheck Screen Energy Saving.  On kernels less than version 4.2, if 
> the screen blanks (probably including suspending a notebook computer), the 
> screen will go crazy, and you will have to reboot the system.  The fix for 
> this is building your own RPMs for the 4.2.6 Linux kernel.
>
> Best,
> Eric
>
>
Hello, I was wondering. I'm having same issues on screen crazy, etc. In 
order to do the 'i915.preliminary_hw_support=1' to fix the issue, must I 
re-install QubesOS as indicated above, or is there a way to simply update 
things?

Thanks.
Patrick 

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