[ATrpms-users] nvidia-graphics aaargh !xen

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:27:37PM +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> Curses. No nvidia-graphics for Xen kernels either. Because nvidia don't 
> provide a driver which works on Xen kernels. But perhaps they're working 
> on it; there are references to Xen in the sources for 172.14.12, and you 
> can set IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE, but it doesn't compile with it set :-) and 
> starts barfing apparently on trying to include bits from the kernel 
> source (well, kernel-devel or kernel-headers).
> 
> Ooh and there's a patch to perhaps make the 96 legacy version of the 
> nvidia graphics driver work with Xen here: 
> http://en.opensuse.org/Use_Nvidia_driver_with_Xen
> 
> Anyone here ever got nvidia-graphics going on Xen?

There are some unofficial patches to get it to build under xen, and it
also works lots of the times, but according to the lead developers
this is just pure luck - the closed source part isn't xen safe. I also
had to give up to use xen & nvidia together, and I regex'd the modules
for nvidia off the xen build matrix to spare any false sense of a
stable driver. :(
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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