From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juergen Gross Subject: Re: Video driver update Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:35:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4C1AF7A7.7000409@ts.fujitsu.com> References: <20100617132026.GC3474@phenom.dumpdata.com> <4C1A2F48.1070404@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C1A2F48.1070404@goop.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: xen-tools@lists.xensource.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Onkar Mahajan , xen-users@lists.xensource.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/17/2010 04:20 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 06/17/2010 02:20 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0530, Onkar Mahajan wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> When I boot into the dom0 kernel. The system is not able to find the >>> NVIDIA video driver.Normally , when I update the non-pvops kernel >>> I switch the virtual console and install the >>> video driver and reboot , then the video driver module gets installed. >>> But I am not able to do similar thing in the case of pvops kernel. >>> How can I keep this video driver installed across the kernel updates. >>> Note that this driver is a proprietary driver from NVIDIA. >>> >>> (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36. >>> 31-pkg2.run) >>> >> I would think this would not work.. but you never know. Did you run the >> package? Did it install/compile the modules? Did it change your Xorg >> file? Did you crank up the verbosity of the kernel and Xen to see what >> is happening. >> >> Please do look at the PVOPS Wiki (just google for it) for how to set >> those verbosity functions. >> > > As far as I know, the nvidia installer explicitly tests for Xen and does > nothing/fails if present. This can be handled by setting the shell variable IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 before starting the installer. Juergen -- Juergen Gross Principal Developer Operating Systems TSP ES&S SWE OS6 Telephone: +49 (0) 89 3222 2967 Fujitsu Technology Solutions e-mail: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com Domagkstr. 28 Internet: ts.fujitsu.com D-80807 Muenchen Company details: ts.fujitsu.com/imprint.html