On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 5:23:11 PM UTC-4, Codie Rae wrote: > So, have gotten this laptop from a friend recently to use as a linux box and > i instantly thought of qubes, reset the tpm and enabled it and it still has > issues atm though - as well as the wired ethernet not showing in the sys-net > VM devices(as far as i can see)- or the yml file - also booted and installed > off of legacy(non-UEFI) as had not undone my friends settings fully yet - > also this laptop model doesn't like s3 suspend in linux(although this problem > i believe is even present in ubuntu) everything else works though afaik - > dom0 GL/GLX/DRI since its an intel gpu, sound, usb3.0, intel wifi > 802.11ac(not tried the bluetooth), the mouse is a bit touchy as its a > synapics glidepoint multi-touch and afaik theres no easy way to set deadzones > for "edge" detection or other things easily in the gui - i installed the OS > on an SSD i put in, in place of the SSHD it came with, and replaced the cdrom > drive with the SSHD and upgraded to 16gb of RAM - so majority is on the SSD, > while i use the SSHD for alternate storage and vm backups - both encrypted > lvm+luks - took a little messing arround with fdisk to get the installer to > treat the SSHD as lvm instead of a normal disk(manually setting up pool and > such - as it wouldnt let me specify it as an lvm disk without doing this[it > was greyd out]) but once i did it gave me both my lvmain and lvswap pools on > the SSHD - and would then let me reformat them and encrypt them - they > automount at boot fine, all the vm's appear to be functioning normally[even > win7 w/ Seamless GUI, and ubuntu hvm's] - with the exception of the wired > ethernet/weird touchpad - but that may be because iirc, this laptop has > vPro/IntelME/MEI(it may not, as its an optional feature and possibly not part > of wlan module included) - also this laptop supports a dock with multiple > ports the laptop doesnt have - plugged it into it but havent tried the ports > in my lab yet, will post further updates - the cpu supports all the > virtualization preferred by Qubes except for iommu(vt-d) isnt supported, ill > list the intel ark and dell urls below - and should support anti-evil-maid as > the tpm shows up in modules, just need to get it to activate among other > things on my to-do list > > http://ark.intel.com/products/75459/Intel-Core-i5-4200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_60-GHz > http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5440-laptop/pd > http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201307-13941/ (ive noted some > things it claims didnt work, now do infact work on qubes, like the wifi > switch) > > PS if you guys want any more debug info just ask > > All in all - most of this computer works out of the box if you boot with > legacy enabled in bios - the rest ill tinker with another day as i have a > working laptop right now - also updated lvm and initramfs;dracut and luks > configs to enable TRIM on the SSD - thing has a wicked fast boot on qubes - > and the vm's
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