[qubes-devel] installing alpha Qubes on IBM Z61p Thinkpad (ATI FireGL V5200)

[Robert Lindsay]

I was not surprised to have to do a little extra to get it working – the FireGL V5200 support has required tweaking for many versions of Fedora.

 

I ran into the same issue as an NVIDIA install – bootup hung after installing XEN step 3 (this is a reboot to text X).

 

Some internet research indicates there are some Xen related radeon issues.

 

I was able to get past this step by modifying the NVDIA instructions as follows:

 

After bootup of failsafe and init 3 to get to a clean root environment download the radeonhd driver

 

Yum install xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd

 

Then do the X –configure step and modify the radeon driver to be a radeonhd driver

 

Add a nomodeset to the end of the first module line of the grub.conf for the Xen kernel (module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-7.pvops0.qubes.x86_64

 

Robert T. Lindsay, Special Projects Program Manager ,

US DOE, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research,

SC21/GTN;email: robert....@science.doe.gov;

tel: 301-903-9550; fax: 301-903-7774;

 

[Joanna Rutkowska]

On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Robert Lindsay wrote:
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> I was not surprised to have to do a little extra to get it working - the

> FireGL V5200 support has required tweaking for many versions of Fedora.
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> I ran into the same issue as an NVIDIA install - bootup hung after

> installing XEN step 3 (this is a reboot to text X).
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> Some internet research indicates there are some Xen related radeon issues.
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> I was able to get past this step by modifying the NVDIA instructions as
> follows:

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So, did you get the h/w accell working? E.g. can you enable "desktop
effects" in KDE or GNOME in Dom0?

joanna.

[Robert Lindsay]

I tested under KDE and desktop effects seem to work.

 

Actually – I am very impressed with the system stability – for an Alpha release it’s rock solid.

 

Performance is also very good.