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?
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