On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:21 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 8/1/07, RavenOak <ravenoak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to get Xen and the NVidia binary driver to work properly. 3d > > accel seems very slow. At the moment I'm using the driver package from > > FreshRPMS (nvidia-x11-drv-97xx-1.0.9762-4.fc7), and it compiles fine, > > loads X fine; but when I have Compiz enabled, rendering is *very* slow. > > The only reason why I'm using 97xx is that the newest driver does not > > seem to play well with Compiz, it crashes the entire system (thanks > > NVidia for inserting a display driver directly into the kernel ;) when I > > attempt to logout or stop Compiz. Do I need to use the 'nosegneg' > > work-around for glibc? Or if newest NVidia driver will work, how do I > > get around the logout/stop Compiz crash? > > > > Any suggestions would be welcome (other than "don't do that..." without > > proper explanation to back it up). > > Per the driver README, Xen is not supported. I'm a bit puzzled how > you got as far as you did, as the driver installation should have > failed as a result of using a Xen enabled kernel. Also 1.0-9762 isn't > supported, you should be using 100.14.11. Sorry > I wouldn't mind using 100.14.11, but it does not play well with Compiz and crashes the entire system as I described above, unless that has been resolved recently. There is a thread on an OpenSUSE list/message board that describes getting the NVidia driver to compile on a Xen kernel. In it, it also further says that Livna has built the fix into their package. I am assuming that Matthias did the same for FreshRPMS, because it works. While looking for the thread, I found this in the OpenSUSE wiki ( http://en.opensuse.org/Use_Nvidia_driver_with_Xen ). The driver version referenced is 9631, and the patch is from www.nvnews.net. I know NVidia has been working on Xen compatibility for a while now (sometime 2005). BTW, no mention of Xen at all in the 9762 version of README.txt. --Tim
