Hi Sven, That's great info, thank you!
Other than these issues mentioned above, your fhd mod worked smoothly? As in, no need to add change anything during the heads build process? I will certainly let you know how it went although, I will probably be back asking more stupid questions in the future before it's finished lol Thanks, Stacey On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 11:46:21 PM UTC+1 sv...@svensemmler.org wrote: > Hi Will, > > I basically used whatever was the HEAD revision of the Heads project at > that time. That worked reasonably well, but a few issues remained: > > -> A weird seemingly random data corruption issue when restoring backups > [1], which I cannot reproduce any longer. I suspect either the VRAM change > (see below) or the switch to the 4.19 kernel (see below) or maybe a > combination of both fixed it. > > -> Distorted graphics (looked like random data in the video buffer) for > the first 1-2 seconds when booting. This went away after setting > 'gfx_uma_size=224M' in cmos.default and 'select USE_OPTION_TABLE' and > 'select STATIC_OPTION_TABLE' in Kconfig. I use an external 4K screen and > never checked if this is also an issue without it being connected. You > might not need to do this. > > -> Random freezes of the system ... this is clearly connected to the 5.4 > kernel and never happens when using the 4.19 kernel. As long as the 4.19 > kernel is supported I feel no pressure to do anything about it and hope > that when the day comes, the newer kernel at that time will not have this > issue anymore. There is some talk about this being connected to the i915 > driver. > > -> Some warnings about the CPU having issues when booting... that's a bug > in Coreboot you can simply ignore. If you however want to fix it, just > apply this fix [2] manually. > > Good luck and let us know how it went! > > /Sven > > [1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6227 > [2] https://review.coreboot.org/28443 > > -- > public key: https://www.svensemmler.org/2A632C537D744BC7.asc > fingerprint: DA59 75C9 ABC4 0C83 3B2F 620B 2A63 2C53 7D74 4BC7 > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/dcd8f6b3-c8f7-42ae-8816-253bc3b2d388n%40googlegroups.com.
