Fwd: [Xen-devel] xen and xwindows

[Nathaniel Haggard <natester@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since Xen doesn't support agp I'm considering a PCI eVGA Nvidia
Geforce2 MX 400 w/ 64MB DDR, 2x/4x.  Should that card work with the
binary drivers from nvidia?  What about the standard xorg drivers?

Nate




On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:57:05 -0000, Ian Pratt <m+ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > To get Xen 2.0 to use xwindows I use the "vga" driver which
> > does not make for a good looking X.  Does the Xen binary dist
> > come with other good generic xwindows drivers?  If not will I
> > need to recompile to get support for i810?
>
> Does the xfree86 i810 driver not work? If it relies on agpgart it
> currently won't work, but we're hoping to sort this out in the next
> couple of weeks.
>
> The VESA generic driver won't work either (because it requires vm86
> support), but there is an experimental patch for this that will probably
> go into the unstable tree soon.
>
> Ian
>


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