HCL - Dell XPS 9340 (Qube-OS 4.2.2)

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Works great. Everything seems stable but no camera (requires proprietary blob in dom0, so no), no bluetooth (no need anyway). Sleep works except I need to reboot sys-net after sleeping:

  1. 4.2.2 default install will break, after install and reboot it will die waiting for startup. Fix - Install with “Kernel Latest” option at bottom of install list. Then install of 4.2 works great.
  2. BE200 wifi works out fo the box, has been stable (don’t see bluetooth device, but i didn’t try that hard). Though stable, maxes at around 300Mbps. My AP sucks but i have a 1G cable and can get 700-800Mbps hardwire and my phone wifi gets 529mbps…so something is not correct with the BE200 config or driver (I should have done a speed check before nuking windows).
  3. Qubes stable and security-related-testing both work. all-testing will break the kernel’s ability to detect block devices from new firmware updates (qv-block empty, and usb drives don’t work etc). Downgrading the updates to remove all updates from all-testing fixed the block device issues.
  4. Camera is a non starter, it would require a binary blob from intel in dom0 so it will probably never work.
  5. S3 sleep seems to work great, but sys-net looses the wifi adapter. Simply rebooting sys-net fixes the issue, so no big deal as I don’t have to restart anything else. System still seems a little warm during sleep…need to test the battery drain.
  6. It can drive 2 external 4k monitors, but only if I attach one to each Thunderbolt port. All the hubs I tried are usbc, so perhaps a Thunderbolt 4 hub can drive 2 monitors from a single port?

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noticed after a kernel update bluetooth is working fine in my sys-usb qube…

so the only issues are the webcam will never work and still issue realoading the network after sleep. i tried the sugestions to auto-reload the networking modules but didnt’ seem to get the device back. restating sys-net though is not so bad.

i got a new wifi 7 AP and the wifi is fast! getting full 1G from my cable modem with wifi-7 on qubes-os so wifi is > 1g.

note sleep/resume doesn’t work so whell with external minotors.

still very happy with the 9340 as a qubes-os laptop.