Re: [Xen-users] nvidia

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

holy guacomoly!

thanks andrew!

- Brian




On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Andrew Lyon wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Shaffin Bhanji
> <shaffin.bhanji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I double that! I too have an IBM T61 with an NVidia card who couln  
> > not
> > get Xen working.
> >
> > Shaffin.
> >
> >
> > On 3/12/09, Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > While I wasn't able to get NVidia drivers and the Xen kernel to play
> > > nice about 4 months ago, I was wondering if any one has?
> > >
> > > I've a need to run XP and Linux together on the same workstation and
> > > really don't want to use VMware player.
> > >
> > > - Brian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Hi,
>
> I have been running nvidia binary drivers on my Xen workstation for
> several months, I could not get them to work with the Xensource 2.6.18
> kernel and I wanted a newer kernel for better hardware support so I
> made my own 2.6.27 dom0 kernel by rebasing the opensuse Xen patches so
> that they can be applied to vanilla without other opensuse patches,
> then I used the IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=y option to install the drivers.
>
> If you happen to be running Gentoo I have a ebuild and xen-patches
> tarball you can use to install the kernel, and I can give you
> instructions on how to emerge the nvidia drivers and also how to build
> the kernel module.
>
> I originally had a 256mb 9500GT but I had problems with the system
> locking up, so I changed to a 512mb 8600GT which works perfectly
> driving two Samsung SM2493HM 24" TFT's at 1920x1200, I've kept the
> Nvidia drivers up to date and am now running 180.35.
>
> I also had some very strange problems with the second display having
> lots of horizontal lines across it, and when I moved the mouse to it
> the cursor lagged terribly, setting swiotlb=255 solved that.
>
> You can even use framebuffer console with nvidia binary drivers if you
> use uvesafb, here is my full grub stanza:
>
> kernel /xen-3.3.1.gz iommu=1 com1=115200,8n1 console=vga,com1
> noirqbalance watchdog dom0_vcpus_pin
>
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.27-xen-r5.test root=/dev/sda2 swiotlb=256
> console=xvc0 console=tty1 pciback.hide=(02:01.0)(02:01.1)(02:01.2)
> video=uvesafb:1920x1200-16,mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent,theme:gentoo
> quiet
>
> module /fbsplash-initrd
>
> I am not using Xinerama, the two displays are separate x screens, so I
> cannot move windows between them, thats not a problem for me but be
> aware I've not tested Xinerama.
>
> Andy
>
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