On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Mark Schloesser wrote: > Hey guys, > > I sadly had no luck fixing my X problem. The system seems to run fine > and as the subject says I moved from 3.4.1-3 to xen-unstable. As I am > already doing fairly bleeding-edge stuff here I thought this would > probably make most sense. > > As I only have an nvs290 gfx card available right now I can't check if > this is the problem. But I'll try to get my hands on some other cards > for next week. > > Today I read through a lot of mailing list archives and PDFs trying to > dig deeper into the IOMMU/PCI passthrough stuff and I want to give the > graphics passthrough situation a shot myself. Sadly it is very confusing > to read about the different setups and hardware environments with both > positive and negative results. Also the patchsets and versions everybody > is talking about do not make it any easier :) > VGA/GFX passthrough is very much under development atm, it's very new stuff. > My current questions would be: > - is the combination of JF git kernel with xen-unstable the right way to > go for this setup? Or should I perhaps use older xen version and apply > some patchset? I think some of those patches were applied in > xen-unstable already but I am not quite sure... > Some people are using http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg as dom0 kernel. That's the old xenlinux kernel, the default dom0 kernel for Xen 3.4.x and earlier versions. > - does anyone have hints or clarification regarding the Xorg problem on > dom0? As I said there are no eye-catching log entries or errors except > the Xorg backtrace at the end of the log file (posted to list before). > This happens regardless of which driver I enable (vesa/nv/nouveau). The > nvidia binary driver compiles without problems and seems to come up but > only gives me a black screen and also locks the vtys. > Did you use the binary/proprietary nvidia driver, of the the opensource driver? I think you'll have more luck with the opensource driver. -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
