I just got W520 and moved my Trusty installation from T520. Had various issues, mostly explained above. Upgraded to nvidia-352, upgraded to linux-image-generic-lts-wily (linux 4.2.0), problems persisted.
Then I just disabled VT-d in BIOS, and all the problems are gone. Didn't need to supply any special kernel boot parameters (my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line holds only 'verbose' in it).
I case anyone runs into this later in time:
I just got W520 and moved my Trusty installation from T520. Had various issues, mostly explained above. Upgraded to nvidia-352, upgraded to linux-image- generic- lts-wily (linux 4.2.0), problems persisted.
Then I just disabled VT-d in BIOS, and all the problems are gone. Didn't need to supply any special kernel boot parameters (my GRUB_CMDLINE_ LINUX_DEFAULT line holds only 'verbose' in it).
I am running BIOS v1.30.