Proposal for re-organizing the HCL

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I made a draft of the list of steps that user should check for entering the future RECOMMENDED list (HCL is also required).
Not all steps can be applicable, for the skipped steps the reason they were why skipped should be provided.

Installation

  • Any problems with installation
  • Was latest kernel required?
  • Were some additional kernel options required?

Basic Input

  • Keyboard
  • External USB mouse [if possible to check]
  • Touch-pad
  • Touch-pad supports “tap as click” and scrolling with 2 fingers works,
  • Display brightness change shortcuts,
  • Sound volume shortcuts,
  • Keyboard led and keyboard brightness change shortcuts,
  • Output of xinput --list from terminal of dom0
  • Check if keyboard and/or touchpad is PS/2 connected (how to check)

Internet and bluetooth

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

Suspend

  • Suspend/Resume works - works out of the box or actions were required?
  • Does resume breaks WiFi, if it does, how to recover it?
  • Does resume breaks Bluetooth, if it does, how to recover it?

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?
  • Video file playback of file using mpv/mplayer/smplayer - 1080p? Higher resolutions and bitrates?
  • Multiple displays configuration works (using available DP/Thunderbolt, HDMI or other video ports,

Audio

  • Speakers (sound playback) (was sys-audio used?),
  • Head-phones via 3.5" jack (works, automatically turns off speakers?)
  • Sound output via HDMI
  • Audio-optical (S/PDIF) output

Fans

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

Other

  • Have you tried running Windows 10 HVM qubes?
  • Does CPU boost seem to be working properly?

Specs:

  • Link to the laptop page on the brand website,
  • Display native resolution,
  • Maximum possible RAM memory,
  • CPU score (from PassMark - CPU Comparison),
  • Number of USB Controllers and if more than one: information what internal USB devices and USB ports are connected to which controller.
  • Internal TPM
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