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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen with dom0 pvops on ultra-recent "git tip"kernel on x

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen with dom0 pvops on ultra-recent "git tip"kernel on x86_64
From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:20:13 -0800 (PST)
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X-Server fails to start on GeForce 8500 GT
Attempting "startx" i get a trace back.
Does it mean , that a proper NVIDIA driver is just not available for the most recent
2.6.29-rc5 ?

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen with dom0 pvops on ultra-recent "git tip"kernel on x86_64
To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 5:41 AM

Hi again,

> > > ok, to my astonishment this seem to be actually working.
> > >
> > > My X server is coming up and seems usable (until my hard disk
stops
> > > working after some minutes again :-)).
> > >
> > > Here's the patch that's doing the trick for me (the Xen
implementation
> > > is mostly copied over from the 2.6.27 SuSE Xen kernel):
> >
> > Thanks for your work on this. In the last couple of days I've
taken
> > these patches and filled them out a bit. I'm now getting full
> > accelerated 3D with the Intel chipset on both my laptop and desktop
> > machines. Look at the xen/dom0/drm branch (its all merged into
hackery
> > as well).
>
> You're welcome. Thanks for cleaning it up. Unfortunately work has
> caught up with me after a few calm days, so I haven't been able to
> follow up on it much. I'll give your tree a try though.

Wow. Booted, everything has come up (including compiz on my notebook
radeon) and looks fine so far.

Very nice, congratulations and thank you.


Christophe



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