Install Help Lenovo W540

[kf5...@gmail.com]

I have read a lot of documentation and the laptop is on the HCL as working.
W540
i7 4900
Nvidia K2100M
16GB RAM
3k Dispaly

Issue:
Installer will freeze after about 1 minute in the GUI everytime, no matter what step you are one.
Things I noticed:
About t-5 seconds to a total system halt (keyboard and mouse stop working) The progress spinning wheel hangs.
If you are in a CLI installer you see the error:

(anaconda:1131): Gdk-ERROR **: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the enviroment

Pane is dead

Troubleshooting done:
Download... Verified and Redownloaded
Image... Using Rufus
Tried multiple USB drives
Set BIOS to UEFI/EFI CSM on and off (every combo)
Disabled TPM in BIOS as that was how the W540 in HCL was setup.... No Change
Changed power management settings in BIOS
Reset BIOS to factory settings
Disabled VT-D
Slammed head against wall
Added args to xen.cfg to disable nvidia card
Attempt 1
[qubes]
options=console=none
kernel=vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes\x20R3.1\x20x86_64 i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 rd.blacklist.drivers=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 quiet rhgb
ramdisk=initrd.img
Attempt 2
[qubes]
options=console=none
kernel=vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes\x20R3.1\x20x86_64 i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 i915.modeset=1 nouveau.modeset=0 quiet rhgb
ramdisk=initrd.img

Nouveau messages can still be seen on startup with both of those on xen.cfg on the flash drive.

Notes:
BIOS does not have an option for disabling NVIDIA chip
This is really stressing me out thanks for any help.

[Philip Robb]

Additional info: I have never been able to get linux to play nice on this W540 except the Ubuntu 12.04 image that lenovo provides. I do have that if there is some info we can salvage from it.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:16:16AM -0700, kf5...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have read a lot of documentation and the laptop is on the HCL as working.
> W540
> i7 4900
> Nvidia K2100M
> 16GB RAM
> 3k Dispaly
>
> Issue:
> Installer will freeze after about 1 minute in the GUI everytime, no matter what step you are one.

Have you tried to wait a little? I've seen very similar issue, on very
similar hardware. X server freezes for about half a minute when querying
for connected outputs.

> Things I noticed:
> About t-5 seconds to a total system halt (keyboard and mouse stop working) The progress spinning wheel hangs.
> If you are in a CLI installer you see the error:
>
> (anaconda:1131): Gdk-ERROR **: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the enviroment
>
>
> Pane is dead

Check logs in /tmp/ when it happens.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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[Qubed One]

kf5...@gmail.com:

Typo here, should be rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau.