Hello,
after the successful installation of either 4.3.0-rc2 or 4.2.4 it is not possible for me to boot and get the GUI up. It is stuck indefinitely with console log that comes prior to the switching to the GUI/window manager.
I have tried both “latest kernel” as well as the default installation option.
If I switch out the graphics card for an old nvidia card and make a clean install, there is no problem.
It seems that my Intel Arc (B570) has some incompatibility with these Qubes versions.
Yes I have verified checksums and signatures and verified usb stick.
Any clues to how I can get this running with Arc?
And much thanks to the people making this project happen! Qubes is awesome!
I had the same problem with an msi z890 tomahawk. I tried reinstalling a few times, not doing anything different, until I got to the GUI. It sometimes hung during the GUI stage so I installed using the latest kernel and disabled sys-usb functionality.
I received an Intel Arc Pro B50 couple of days ago, it is pretty similiar to the B570.
You need kernel-latest, but you also need to manually download and place the firmware files for the battlemage series. They are not yet included in the intel-gpu-firmware package in Qubes.
You need to create the folder /lib/firmware/xe and place the files there.
Afterwards you need to run dracut --force --regenerate-all to include the firmware files into the initramfs’s of the installed kernels.
You should be able to prep this with your old Nvidia card and then switch the GPUs.
I am right now hesitating on a purchase of this A50 card. Did you get to try the SR-iov functions for allocating its functions to multiple VMs? Please do come back to tell us what you find!
I compiled the newly released kernel 6.17 yesterday, to try and activate sr-iov, but I was not successful yet.
It shows sr-iov to be supported, but there’s no kernelmodule parameter and nothing in sysfs to allow to enable it.
I’ll report when i’ve made it work, just FYI it will only be supported by the Arc Pro BXX Series, A50 won’t be supported as far as I understood.
I am also looking at pro B50, even though I have no requirement for lots of vram or high performance.
I guess there will be no sr-iov/VF functionality until there is a "i915.max_vfs " module parameter. It is required for the data centre GPUs[1] and I saw it mentioned in posts and guides for various unofficial, out of tree, modules.
I feel sure that a working multi-VF GPU would open up a lot of new applications for Intel in the business dGPU market. It sounds like good hardware, which only needs the software support, although I understand that there has been a lot of work to fix support for various games, which is surely where the main money is.