On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > The Lenovo ThinkStation P710 is a good starting point ( > http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/workstations/thinkstation/p-series/p710/).
To help others who follow the above advice save some time: Xeons don't have Intel integrated GPUs, so one has to figure how to get this up and running with a discrete GPU. In the case of Nvidia Quadro M2000, the latest Ubuntu and Fedora install images don't work. This works: Disable or enable the TPM. (By default, it's in a mode where the kernel can see it but it doesn't work. It should either be hidden or be allowed to work.) Disable secure boot. (Nvidia's proprietary drivers don't work with secure boot enabled.) Use the Ubuntu 16.04.1 install image (i.e. intentionally old image--you can upgrade later) After installing, edit /etc/default/grub and set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" (i.e. make the string empty; without this, the nvidia proprietary driver conflicts with LUKS pass phrase input). update-initramfs -u update-grub apt install nvidia-375 Then upgrade the rest. Even rolling forward the HWE stack works *after* the above steps. (For a Free Software alternative, install Ubuntu 16.04.1, stick to 2D graphics from nouveau with llvmpipe for 3D and be sure never to roll the HWE stack forward.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
