HCL - Dell XPS 15 7590

[Adam Grodowski]

Dear Qubes Users,

Happy to report that after some little manual labour, Dell XPS 15 7590 is working with Qubes OS and Win 10 (dual OS)

Things I have done to make it work:

- Shrink Win root partition to make some space for Qubes

- Burn Qubes 4.0.3 to USB

- Disable EFI runtime services completely (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/#installation-freezes-before-displaying-installer--disable-efi-runtime-services) otherwise we have XEN kernel panic at "ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs, Using old ACK method"

- Update BIOS from 1.5 to 1.6 (not sure if needed, probably not)

- Switch off the secure boot in BIOS: Secure Boot > Secure Boot Enable

- Modify SATA in BIOS: System Configuration > SATA Operation > AHCI

- Boot from USB (F12 for the boot menu)

- Install Qubes carefully within the empty space, not to damage the Win partitions

- Ready any usb wifi dongle, because the wifi does not work (Killer(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX1650x 160MHz Wireless Network Adapter (200NGW))

- Did not check for NVIDIA drivers, not needed for my work

For Win 10, I enable secure boot and set SATA to Raid

For Qubes, I disable secure boot and set SATA to AHCI

With kind regards,

Adam