On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:44 <drw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently got access to an T490 and wanted to migrate my Qubes
> installation to the machine. I can say that the latest rc release for 4.0.2
> works ok. Although I had to put the PCIe devices to "no-strict-reset=true"
> so my sys-net VM would start.
>
> Hope that's useful for someone in the future.
>
> Some tidbits from improving the situation:
>
> First of all, I had trouble with suspend on my t480+qubes until I
> disabled Thunderbolt completely in the BIOS. I have no idea why this was
> interfering, but since i'm not using it, whatever.
>
> I tried to get the Qubes stable release 4.0.1 to work, but it had really
> buggy graphics drivers. After attempting the Qubes Release 4.0.2-rc1,
> the graphics are super smooth. You might also have luck with installing
> the stable, do the PCIe trick I had to pull off (more on that later) and
> install a newer dom0 kernel. But I haven't tried that.
>
> ```qvm-pci```
>
> this gives back a list of devices, you'll see some devices added to
> sys-net. Perfect! We're going to detach them and then attach them with
> an extra option and make that persistent.
>
> qvm-pci detach sys-net dom0:<id1>
> qvm-pci detach sys-net dom0:<id2>
>
> qvm-pci-attach --persistent --option no-strict-reset=true sys-net
> dom0:<same id1>
> qvm-pci-attach --persistent --option no-strict-reset=true sys-net
> dom0:<same id2>
>
> After this, start sys-net VM and subsequently the sys-firewall Vm and
> everything should work fine.
>
> I also updated to a latest kernel, but it didn't change anything for me,
> so it isn't necessary.
>
> sudo qubes-dom0-update
> sudo qubes-dom0-update kernel-latest
>
> I noticed that batterylife on the t490 and qubes is super super super
> sad. It lasts 2.5 maybe 3 without wifi and low lighting for the display.
>
> The HCL:
>
> ---
> layout:
>   'hcl'
> type:
>   'notebook'
> hvm:
>   'yes'
> iommu:
>   'yes'
> slat:
>   ''
> tpm:
>   'unknown'
> remap:
>   'no'
> brand: |
>   LENOVO
> model: |
>   20N3S2MV00
> bios: |
>   N2IET61W (1.39 )
> cpu: |
>   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
> cpu-short: |
>   FIXME
> chipset: |
>   Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e34] (rev 0b)
> chipset-short: |
>   FIXME
> gpu: |
>   Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ea0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> gpu-short: |
>   FIXME
> network: |
>   Intel Corporation Device 9df0 (rev 30)
>   Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V (rev 30)
> memory: |
>   32550
> scsi: |
>
> usb: |
>   1
> versions:
>
> - works:
>     'partial'
>   qubes: |
>     R4.0
>   xen: |
>     4.8.5-7.fc25
>   kernel: |
>     5.1.15-1
>   remark: |
>     dTPM 2.0 doesn't work.
>   credit: |
>     DrWhax
>   link: |
>     FIXLINK
>

I also posted about the T490 recently - I saw similar issues with battery
life, but only after a suspend/resume cycle - on first boot it’s ok.
Battery life in Fedora 30 directly installed is pretty good (at least
double, if not more).

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