From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: NVidia driver status Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:52:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20070130155227.GF18642@redhat.com> References: <1170171202.2486.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <907625E08839C4409CE5768403633E0B018E190F@sefsexmb1.amd.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <907625E08839C4409CE5768403633E0B018E190F@sefsexmb1.amd.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Petersson, Mats" Cc: xen-devel , Jacob Gorm Hansen List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:43:48PM +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com > > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of > > Jacob Gorm Hansen > > Sent: 30 January 2007 15:33 > > To: xen-devel > > Subject: [Xen-devel] NVidia driver status > > > > hi, > > > > being dissapointed a bit by ATI's support for Xen, I just purchased a > > top-of-the-line Dell box with an expensive NVidia graphics card, as > > rumour said they would work better than the ATI ones. > > Unfortunately, the > > NVidia installer detects that I am running Xen, and then refused to > > compile the kernel module, saying that Xen is not supported. > > Does anyone > > know of a way around this check, or have fresh experiences getting Xen > > and NVidia to play together? > > Now, there may be calls to say that I'm biased here, but I'm really not > working with the ATI-side of AMD anyways, so: > > The reason it refuses to compile the kernel module is probably more to > do with the fact that the guys at nVidia KNOWS that it's not going to > work anyways. If that's the case, it's not really much point in > bypassing the check itself. It works just fine on Xen kernels from what I can tell. There are 3rd party YUM repos which provide pre-compiled nvidia modules which work with the Fedora Xen kernels. $ uname -r 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen $ cat /proc/modules | grep nvidia nvidia 7760984 32 - Live 0xffffffff8826b000 (P) Now perhaps the RPM has been patched to make it compile on Xen, or perhaps it is just a bug in the installer script, but it does look like it works. In either case one should file support requests with NVidia directly since it is a closed source driver which means open source developers can't do much (if anything) to debug problems without risking getting tainted by/violating the licensing terms. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|