Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660TI (1650)

[user...@disroot.org]

Hello,

does anyone a Geforce GTX 1660 or similar working with qubes 4.0 or 4.1?
I've already tried to compile the nvidia driver, which is working if i boot qubes without xen.
But nvidia driver and also the nouveau driver are not working for now.
I get the device is not supported in Xorg.log.

Please give me some hints how i can get it work.
My problem is, that my laptop requires the nvidia card used to get the hdmi port working :-(.

Thanks

[Frédéric Pierret]

Hi,
There is recent work done at kernel for making HDMI in NVIDIA laptops working. Currently, the patches are not merged into 5.6 or LTS 5.4. For example, Fedora has backported those patches for 5.6: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/c242538da102e54acc0378e3322262058ba5a8de?branch=master

I had also a lot troubles with NVIDIA on laptops. So few days ago I decided to backport those upstream patches for Qubes and the result is excellent. I finally got HDMI working on problematic laptops.

Currently it's not merged into Qubes but soon. I tested the backport for LTS 5.4 https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-linux-kernel/commits/v5.4.31-backport and 5.6 https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-linux-kernel/commits/kernel-5.6-backport

The two branches are on top of current PR for Qubes linux-kernel component. So you can build them if you want. If you don't, the two kernels for Qubes 4.1 are available on my mirror:
- LTS 5.4: https://mirror.notset.fr/qubes/repo/notset/yum/r4.1/unstable/dom0/fc31/rpm/kernel-5.4.31-1.qubes.x86_64.rpm
- Latest: https://mirror.notset.fr/qubes/repo/notset/yum/r4.1/unstable/dom0/fc31/rpm/kernel-latest-5.6.3-1.qubes.x86_64.rpm

You can check the signature of the packages with https://mirror.notset.fr/qubes/repo/notset/RPM-GPG-KEY-notset

Best,
Frédéric