> On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 02:25:15 UTC+10, johny...@sigaint.org > wrote: >> > On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 11:11:28 PM UTC-4, Drew White wrote: >> >> On Friday, 9 September 2016 18:58:51 UTC+10, Thomas Ernst wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> >> > >> >> > Does Qubes support NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards? The reason for >> >> asking is that I am planing to buy a Lenovo ThinkPad T460p Laptop, >> >> which has a NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 2 GB graphics card. >> >> > >> >> > Best, >> >> > >> >> > Thomas >> >> >> >> I have a GeForce GTX630 and a Quadro 600 in my machine, and both work >> >> well with no issues. >> >> >> >> The Thinkpads work well with Qubes. >> >> the T530 is very nice and works well. >> >> So the Pro T460 should also be quite acceptable. >> >> >> >> As long as you have 4 or more threads, you can use qubes easily. >> > >> > I have gtx 650 ti. works great. I would research how the card >> perform >> > with open source linux drivers in general before buying. >> >> I have a GeForce6100SM-M2. It's on-board nVidia card crashes (diagonal >> stripes) after a bit of usage (almost seems to happen when memory gets >> low). >> >> I've tried all the BIOS settings, etc., with no luck. (The same thing >> occurs under Tails, FYI.) >> >> With a PCI GeForce7300 GT inserted (and the on-board video disabled), >> things work just fine. >> >> (Note that in 3.1, and 3.2 up until rc2? I think, there was a bug where >> the VM's would get screen corruption. rc2 and beyond have fixed this >> problem.) >> >> Cheers. >> >> JJ > > I only got screen corruption AFTER upgrading to 3.2, then I did a full > update of Dom0 to get rid of that because there was a fix that came out > for it. > However it didn't happen often. I never found out the reason why it > happened, because I saw there was a fix for it. > 3.1 didn't EVER have the screen corruption for me. > And I was using Dual Monitors and dual Quadro600's
The screen corruption problem I was seeing was in 3.2 (rc1 I think), and the fix was in the VM's (Debian-8/Redhat-23) not dom0. (It was something to do with accessing freed/reallocated memory once swapping started, if I remember correctly.) JJ -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/9a30f6877dcb0bd489005ee6bdd19a8d.webmail%40localhost. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
