Gigabyte x570 Gaming X motherboard

[BBro]

Sorry for no response. I’m reeeeeeeeeeally busy and misfortunately deleted my qubes installation while playing with another linux on same machine: If you know how, please help me… [Help needed] Recover deleted partition table

Answering your questions:

@corona

I couldn’t find any article detailing this limitation in the Qubes documentation. In any case, is this an option provided by the motherboard itself? Also, is BIOS necessary to boot the first time (i.e. for Qubes installation) only or is it required every single time I want to use Qubes?

You need to tweak settings before you try to boot Qubes installer
First of all, enable IOMMU and virtualization (SVM Mode)
Then check if your settings allows to boot in “legacy mode” or “CSM mode”
Lastly, restart and enter boot menu using f12 key and choose your USB installer (without “UEFI:” Prefix)

@kysstfafm

Given that you seem to be in a conversation with BBro & BBro may yet respond, sorry to intrude but I checked. Looking around (not advertising in any way for the company or it’s products but helping to spot check something that others might have missed) there is the original X570 Gaming X motherboard (2 PS/2) & the newer X570S Gaming X motherboard (1 PS/2). Note the S in the name, not certain whether the OP has the original motherboard. Either could work without requiring a USB keyboard (or even a USB mouse), theoretically.

Thanks for explanation and sorry for mess.
I have motherboard rev 1.1 with separated PS2 keyboard and mouse so 2 PS2

@corona

Does that mean I need a PS2 mouse + keyboard?

When I was installing qubes, there was no option to set permissive mode easily through installation. So i just used ps2 keyboard and mouse, when installation completed I created sys-usb and set pass-through usb keyboard and mouse.

@corona

I don’t have any CDs/DVDs etc. – I only listen to MP3, WAV files etc. (all inside the machine itself). Do I still need a DAC?

No you don’t. However I have to admit, that yesterday, while replacing my graphics card I might have broken onboard audio, as it now produces only silence… (don’t know even how, so be careful) - it shows in the menu, but I hear nothing in my headphones.
It’s just offensive assumption but its “mechanical” quality also seems not be good…

@Bruce

This looks great @BBro!

I have two questions:

1. Does Qubes work with the onboard HDMI, or is the Radeon 100% necessary?
2. The board looks like it can handle the Ryzen 5000 series, does this mean I would be able to use a 12-Core Zen3 - or will Qubes only be able to use this specific 3800X processor? (i.e., can I use any Ryzen CPU that the X570 board supports with Qubes?)

Thanks in advance.

1. I’m not expert but it depends on that if processor has graphics processor included, that’s how works integrated graphics. My ryzen 7 3800x doesn’t have one so I bought some old cheap non-NVIDIA graphics card that had quite good linux support in the past.
   You may ask how do you check it: For instance, I searched for “ryzen 7 3800x integrated graphics” and found this site: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Specs | TechPowerUp CPU Database
   In the integrated graphics section there’s N/A.
   Do the same with your specific processor model.

2. Like above I’m not sure, First of all, check BIOS updates on official website, there are plenty of them and they bring support for newer processors.
   But This series seems to be quite new so there might some problems. First of all, check for general support for desired series in connection with linux kernel. Then compare mentioned kernel version there to that qubes uses.

Once again sorry for being idle. Hope it helps. If something is not clear, write here