a short background:
everything started when i've upgraded my VGA from an old GTX560 to a new GTX1060, this is when i discovered that qubes, because of nouveau not really at a bleeding edge version isn't compatible with the said video card, at a point that i can't see anything on screen.
I've solved this by blacklisting the driver and eventually i managed to get the system to boot into X, but now i have the following problems:
1) the only supported resolution appears to be 1024x768@75hz, and this is kinda frustrating considering i have a full HD display, i'd like to get back to 1920x1080@120Hz, since this resolution is supported by my display.
2) collaterally, by trying to fix the video issue, i've discovered that the EFI partition (i have qubes running from an external USB3 HD) boots stright into the OS, and doesn't chainload to GRUB, I have absolutely no idea why, since this is something that the installer took care of on its own, but this is becoming very limiting, because every update in the qubes dom0, especially when related with a new kernel, requires quite a bit of extra work:
- mounting the EFI system partition
- fix the parameters manually in the CFG
can anyone help me out in setting things up properly so that i have a proper grub configuration?
3) the last thing: for some odd reasons i'm stuck on kernel 4.4.14 because of performance reasons, despite not changing ANYTHING except from the kernel version, when running from 4.4.55, X is extremely slow and choppy, mouse lags, and to a point that the system is absolutely unusable. any idea on what this can be caused by?
Since this is quite an active development community i'm fairly confident that across the users and/or devs, someone will be able to help me out with my issues, because I'm really enthusiast about this OS, and looking forward to use it more, despite the transition is quite complex as of now.
Thanks in advance
I would check to see what the latest kernel available in the testing repo is.
linux always lags a few years behind hardware support. looking at this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411830 makes me think 1060 not gonna work with nouveau on any kernel right now.
another solution would be to try and install the proprietary nvidia driver from rpm fusion in dom0 but prop drivers are considered insecure. Not sure it will even work but maybe worth a shot.
lmao just watched it. Personally I never had any problems with nvidia on linux, with either open source or prop drivers. I've always prefered it over ati. But then again I would never buy bleeding edge hardware to run linux.