HCL - Lenovo ThinkPad W520

[Andreas]

Amazing work, Qubes developers. Thank you!

[pok...@gmail.com]

I have the W520 with CPU type i7-2630QM and Nvidia Quadro 2000M (Lenovo 4284-E78).

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=52219,53474

This laptop version doesnt have VT-d, but I completed the installation of Qubes R4.0.3 even though there was a warning about this.

When booting the system however, the laptop screen goes black and I cant see what's going on.

Any suggestions?

[brenda...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 2:51:25 PM UTC-4, pok...@gmail.com wrote:

I have the W520 with CPU type i7-2630QM and Nvidia Quadro 2000M (Lenovo 4284-E78).

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=52219,53474

This laptop version doesnt have VT-d, but I completed the installation of Qubes R4.0.3 even though there was a warning about this.

When booting the system however, the laptop screen goes black and I cant see what's going on.

Any suggestions?

For Qubes 4.0 on the W520, I configure the BIOS to use the Integrated graphics only, disabling the NVIDIA GPU entirely.

That being said, it'd be worth it to switch to a W520 with a higher feature level CPU that does support vt-d.

Brendan