HCL - Dell Precision 5510 i7-6820HQ

User Support HCL Reports
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-Disabled SecureBoot in order to install
-Using UEFI unlike the similar HCL (i5) on file which specified Legacy
-Machine has Discrete NVIDIA Quadro M1000M which doesn’t show up on the HCL report and isn’t being used in any way
-Everything functions, but the microphone and webcam attachments to VM are sometimes unreliable/erratic

Qubes-HCL-Dell_Inc_-Precision_5510-20230930-074418.yml (792 Bytes)

Edit: I had forgotten that I also had to manually add the Qubes .efi in BIOS as for some reason the install was not being detected automatically.

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Thanks you! Can you please run some additional tests and answer some questions about the list of what WORKS or DOES NOT work that is available here: Proposal for re-organizing the HCL - #32 by balko

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Installation

  • Disable SecureBoot

Basic Input

  • Keyboard - works
  • External USB mouse [if possible to check] - works
  • Touch-pad - works
  • Touch-pad supports “tap as click” and scrolling with 2 fingers works - works
  • Display brightness change shortcuts - brings up icon but does not appear to be functional
  • Sound volume shortcuts - works
  • Keyboard led and keyboard brightness change shortcuts - works

Internet and bluetooth

  • Ethernet cable connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - N/A
  • Ethernet cable connection - speed - N/A
  • Wifi connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - works
  • Wifi connection - speed, is reliable over the time? - reliable
  • Bluetooth - works out of the box or actions were required? - unknown
  • Bluetooth - shows devices, connection process works, sound output or copying works.- unknown

Suspend

  • Suspend/Resume works - works out of the box or actions were required? - just works
  • Does resume breaks WiFi, if it does, how to recover it? - works (<5% of the time WiFi breaks and have to re-suspend
  • Does resume breaks Bluetooth, if it does, how to recover it? - untested

Video [increase VCPU to the qube before test]

  • Fullscreen and windowed video playback of youtube - 720p/1080p/2K/4K in Firefox. Does it drop frames? - 720p/1080p works, unable to test others
  • Video file playback of file using mpv/mplayer/smplayer - 1080p? Higher resolutions and bitrates? untested
  • Multiple displays configuration works (using available DP/Thunderbolt, HDMI or other video ports - untested

Audio

  • Speakers (sound playback) (was sys-audio used?) - works, no sys-audio used
  • Head-phones via 3.5" jack (works, automatically turns off speakers?) - works/works
  • Sound output via HDMI - untested
  • Audio-optical (S/PDIF) output - untested

Fans

  • Are fans silent on idle? - yes
  • Are fans noisier than on Windows/Linux?. If they are, was thankfan or similar software tried? - untested

Other

  • Have you tried running Windows 10 HVM qubes? - yes, works but suspend requires W10 reboot
  • Does CPU boost seem to be working properly? - unknown

Specs:

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Thanks a lot!
Now we see, that forum users are be able to fill even such detailed testing list.

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@Qubesthrowaway can you please also paste here the output of these 2 commands from dom0:

# xinput --list

and

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
(this one may be big, you can use the spoiler).

It may allow to understand if this laptop has some kind of internal PS/2 keyboard/touchpad or USB one.
You may strip serial numbers from the output if any. Thank you.

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And alternative way to check it is to run this command and check in several seconds (beware, it can require hard-reset, in case the input breaks and do not restore):

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⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DLL06E5:01 06CB:7A13 Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DLL06E5:01 06CB:7A13 Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ sys-usb: Logitech Wireless Mouse id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Intel HID events id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]

I’ll post the other once I go through to check serial numbers to strip.

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Nice, it seems you have PS/2 internal keyboard, which is good! It is an advantage for laptop to have it on Qubes OS.

Can you please run the last test for me in dom0 terminal:

qvm-pause sys-usb && echo 'Paused' && sleep 10 && qvm-unpause sys-usb

It should pause sys-usb and unpause in 10 seconds. During this 10 seconds can you please switch to some qube with alt+tab and enter some key to check keyboard working, and move cursor with touchpad to check it is working,
If keyboard and/or touchpad input does not work, it should start working again after 10 seconds,

BE AWARE: do not have any important programs with unsaved changes running during this test, because there is a low chance of situation that input will stop working and will not continue to work after 10 seconds. In this case you should reboot laptop with reset/power button (long press it to turn the laptop off), and everything will work again after the boot as usual.

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Happy to report both keyboard and touchpad continued working during the sys-usb pause.

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