Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-11-03 Thread Matt B
Very nice! It sounds to this newb as if it's hacky as hell, but it's nice to finally know what the problem was! Have you also dropped a line to the coreboot mailing list? Even though I ordered a dGPU G505s I got shipped one without, so sadly I can't add this to the ifixit I plan to finish this wi

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-11-01 Thread hansjurgenj789
Hi All, I thought that I share with the g505s+Coreboot+QubesOS users that I finally managed to enable and use the dGPUs on the g505s boards. When mentioning boards, I mean, that both variants with its respective VBIOSes: dGPU=1002,6663 (ATI HD 8570M, Sun-Pro) and the dGPU=1002,6665 (ATI R5 M2

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-04-09 Thread Mike Banon
> Mind if I send that > http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Lenovo_G505S_hacking link out to the > qubes-users list in reply to an email there? I can hold off if you prefer, > I agree it's a bit rough right now. :) No problem, maybe someone from us would have time to complete this, one day On Sun

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-03-08 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Thu, March 8, 2018 11:19 am, Mike Banon wrote: > Hi awokd, > > >> I looked around the wiki; should I make a G505s Project page? >> > > I created a new page and will be working on it soon: > http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Lenovo_G505S_hacking . You could > edit it too, just create a new acco

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-03-08 Thread Mike Banon
Hi awokd, > I looked around the wiki; should I make a G505s Project page? I created a new page and will be working on it soon: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Lenovo_G505S_hacking . You could edit it too, just create a new account at the DangerousPrototypes forums and you can use the same acc

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-06 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 12/29/2017 08:21 PM, awokd wrote: On Sat, December 30, 2017 12:20 am,taii...@gmx.com wrote: On 12/29/2017 06:39 PM, awokd wrote: On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:32 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: 2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00taii...@gmx.com : Yes, I am also very disappointed in purism, and its stil

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-06 Thread Ivan Ivanov
I believe, something like this could be reliably determined only by experiment. but 16 GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs are very expensive - especially now, when the RAM prices hiked and 4 GB of DDR3 now costs like 8 GB :P Currently it makes much more sense to get extra coreboot supported hardware (e.g. some spare

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-06 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 01/05/2018 07:00 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: On Fri, January 5, 2018 11:19 pm, 'Emil Novik' via qubes-users wrote: Does any G505s owner ever tried to put more than 16Go ram in it? The limit is meant to be 16Go but some laptops can use more than officially supported, wondering if the G

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-05 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Fri, January 5, 2018 11:19 pm, 'Emil Novik' via qubes-users wrote: > Does any G505s owner ever tried to put more than 16Go ram in it? > The limit is meant to be 16Go but some laptops can use more than > officially supported, wondering if the G505s is one of these. > > Would be nice to run 32Go r

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-05 Thread 'Emil Novik' via qubes-users
Does any G505s owner ever tried to put more than 16Go ram in it? The limit is meant to be 16Go but some laptops can use more than officially supported, wondering if the G505s is one of these. Would be nice to run 32Go ram on it for Qubes ! --- Emil Novik Original Message On De

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-30 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Thank you very much! Luckily, when the people search, your posts and posts like this are among the top results: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#will-the-purism-laptops-be-supported "There are severe privacy, security and freedom issues with these laptops, due to the Intel chipsets that they use" Hop

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:56 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Maybe its just a driver which can't find a blob - by itself the GPU > should have this blob loaded on it by coreboot. > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101473 > Alex Deucher says that "Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 12/29/2017 06:39 PM, awokd wrote: On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:32 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: 2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com : Yes, I am also very disappointed in purism, and its still unclear for me why they went the Intel road, when - at 2013 - they could have created a more freedom

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Maybe its just a driver which can't find a blob - by itself the GPU should have this blob loaded on it by coreboot. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101473 Alex Deucher says that "Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x" message can be ignored BTW this "0x" i

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:32 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > 2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com : > > Yes, I am also very disappointed in purism, and its still unclear for > me why they went the Intel road, when - at 2013 - they could have created a > more freedom-respecting equivalent of G505S,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com : > I am glad there are still some good people in the coreboot community. > > Thanks for the info, yeah I have put up a stink about it many times but it > seemed like no one cared. I have been moderated from the list many times for > complaining about the d

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Fri, December 29, 2017 10:50 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > awokd, Thank you very much for your microcode research ;) > > Please remind me, which version of G505S do you have: > integrated /// integrated + HD 8570M /// integrated + R5 M230 ? Mine's the integrated. Blooorp turned out to have the integ

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I am glad there are still some good people in the coreboot community. Thanks for the info, yeah I have put up a stink about it many times but it seemed like no one cared. I have been moderated from the list many times for complaining about the direction the project is going in (corporate contr

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
awokd, Thank you very much for your microcode research ;) Please remind me, which version of G505S do you have: integrated /// integrated + HD 8570M /// integrated + R5 M230 ? Last time we experimented with Mike, we were 100% sure we extracted vgabios'es correctly, in the best possible way, but -

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Fri, December 29, 2017 9:57 pm, qma ster wrote: > The complete "trying-to-kill-AGESA-boards" story: Thank you for the background, and for your nice work with Mike on the GPUs! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe f

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread qma ster
Tuesday, 28 December 2017 , 4:30:51 UTC+6 awokd wrote: > On Wed, December 27, 2017 6:05 pm, Taiidan [at] gmx [dot] com wrote: > > What version of coreboot are you using, they are removing AGESA from the > > latest versions due to some dumb choices by the leadership. > > I'm not sure that's accurat

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Wed, December 27, 2017 6:05 pm, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > What version of coreboot are you using, they are removing AGESA from the > latest versions due to some dumb choices by the leadership. I'm not sure that's accurate. From the thread on the Coreboot mailing list a few months ago, it sounded

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-27 Thread Blooorp
Le mercredi 27 décembre 2017 19:05:40 UTC+1, tai...@gmx.com a écrit : > What version of coreboot are you using, they are removing AGESA from the > latest versions due to some dumb choices by the leadership. > > I would use v4.6, it is what I use. I use 4.6 too, it's the current version. (to be p

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-27 Thread taii...@gmx.com
What version of coreboot are you using, they are removing AGESA from the latest versions due to some dumb choices by the leadership. I would use v4.6, it is what I use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this gr

[qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-26 Thread Blooorp
Le mardi 26 décembre 2017 22:26:10 UTC+1, Blooorp a écrit : > I installed Qubes with Encryption on my laptop, all looked fine exept for a > popup saying that my hardware doesn't support Interrupt Remapping, which > shouldn't fail my install. > > Then on first boot, after I enter my password, the