These are my experiences with Qubes 4.0rc1 on a Tuxedo BU1406-notebook with an i5-7200U-CPU and a NVMe-SSD. Some issues could be resolved (mostly using this mailing list, thanks to anyone contributing!), others remain:
Resolved issues: - Unable to install Qubes in UEFI-Mode. Selecting "Install Qubes R4.0-rc1" just loops back to the same menu. Solution: creating an MBR and installing in Bios-Mode worked fine - After the installation, the notebook kept rebooting. I got into the GRUB Boot Menu, but after selecting Qubes, it briefly showed the "Loading Xen..., Loading Linux... Loading ramdisk..."-message, and then rebootet the PC. (Much like [this guy](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/Pf1Cd87KSsk) describes. Maybe someone link him here? I can't respond to him, since I just subscribed...) Solution: editing the menu-item and removing "iommu=no-igfx" in the multiboot-line allowed my to start the system and update dom0. This update then generated a new grub configuration file, which resolved the issue for good. I did this three times now, the first two times it worked at once, the last time I had to restart the update until I saw the "Generating grub configuration file ..."-message (maybe the dom0-update-server could not be reached at first?) - Sys-net could not be started. At first boot it showed me the error-message "['/usr/bin/qvm-start', 'sys-firewall'] failed: Start failed: internal error: Unable to reset PCI device 0000:03:00.1: internal error: Active 000:03:00.0 devices on bus with 000:03:00.1, not doing bus reset". This was really about Sys-net, to which 03:00.1 was attached. Workaround: Removing the 03:00.1 ethernet controller in the sys-net vm settings worked, which means however that I don't have Ethernet. I can live with that for now. Blocklisting the card-reader as [suggested here](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/rBRTvXryQ6k/ybFZHDxUFgAJ) was not tried yet. Unresolved issues: - Touch-pad does not register taps as clicks. The physical buttons work however, as does multitouch scrolling, so this is not critical. It is strange though, as Fedora 25 is the base of dom0, and Fedora 25 itself has no problems with the touchpad. - Standby is not working properly. This is the last dealbreaking issue remaining. - With Sys-usb enabled, can't unlock after Standby. I can go into standby, but waking the notebook results in a blank screen. The led-backlight comes up though. Dirty Workaround: It looked like the keyboard and touch-pad did not reconnect. I reinstalled with sys-usb disabled, which allowed me to unlock, but lead to 2.2: - With Sys-usb disabled, Standby results in strange behavior when sys-net is running. The first "Suspend to RAM" after starting sys-net (or booting the machine) works perfectly fine, but kills my networking-capabilities ("NetworkManager is not running" when I click the red networking-icon). After that, Standby will lock the screen and nothing else happens at first. I can unlock the screen and go back to the Desktop. Then, after a minute or so the computer will go into standby. Waking will go directly to the Desktop, without the lock-screen. Restarting sys-net and sys-firewall will also reset this issue. Some rare times, the first standby will not result in the described problem, so this is only 90-95% reproducible. It maybe unrelated, but it seems sys-net is always at the minimum of 400MB, and sys-firewall at the maximum of 4000MB of used memory. What did not work: Removing the WiFi-controller. However, without any attached networking-devices the NetworkManager keeps running after the first Standby. If you have any idea about one of the remaining issues, please let me know. Since the HCL-tool is missing in rc1, I will provide the report (and an update) once rc2 comes out. --Aaron -- 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 post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/lJqQSOe8gZac1CkxzG6cGxVsYB4FTcjXEh-ERrLvUVryBA1e7V61mjdU5o5fws05lDNhuC187LqHk73e4oB5_g32FSEGpqLwezGKV6-SdVM%3D%40protonmail.ch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
