On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:05:39 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sunday, July 23, 2017 at 3:02:43 PM UTC+2, Fun Zork wrote:
> > On Friday, July 21, 2017 at 7:05:56 PM UTC-4, pixel fairy wrote:
> > > have you tried the 4.0 alpha? thats based on fedora 25, which should be 
> > > able to use the 1080.
> > 
> > No luck.  I get the same results as I get after I update to the 
> > current-testing kernel- it reboots right after X tries to start, without 
> > logging anything whatsoever.  I am no expert, but from what I can glean, 
> > 3.2 out of the box has two issues with the 1080: the default kernel doesn't 
> > support it and Xen doesn't support it.  Updating the kernel gets you past 
> > that issue, but there still is an issue from Xen, even after updating it to 
> > 4.6.5.  That's my working theory anyways.
> > 
> > In any case, I ordered a 7750.
> 
> 
> I am also looking for ways to have a 4K 60Hz (with 4:4:4, a must for PC use)  
> TV (43" so I don't care about DPI) running Qubes 3.2 with latest 4.9 kernel.
> 
> I'll have to buy a video card, and I was looking at the AMD RX560 (which is 
> Polaris 11) since it does have true 4:4:4 4K60 HDMI 2.0 and Dom0 with kernel 
> 4.9 has the module for Polaris 11 (see /lib/firmware/amdgpu/), so that side 
> is covered.
> 
> The problem comes from kernel 4.9 release notes, where it says they added 
> AMDGPU but to use it: "you'll need X.Org Server 1.19.0 and xf86-video-amdgpu 
> 1.2.0 too."
> 
> And this seems to be a problem because Qubes 3.2 Dom0 is Fedora 23 based, 
> which has Xorg 1.18.3, and lacks X driver for amdgpu (see 
> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu/overview/).
> 
> Maybe this is why X can not start on your case.
> 
> Does anybody have a RX5* AMD card working on Qubes (even if not at 4K)? How? 
> Xorg.0.log please?

I have an nvidia 650 ti that works fine with qubes.  I would just get any card 
that was released 3 or more years ago, that supports 4k resolution.  Get the 
cheapest one.

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