[SGVLUG] Xen and nVidia...

[John Jefferson Lowry IV]

You can pass modules information via your boot loader. Grub will at least, I
am not that learned on Lilo.

On 6/5/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> ...doesn't work (per nVidia)
>
> My new laptop has an nVidia card, so naturally I want to use the
> vendor-supplied driver, but it seems it won't work with a "xen" enabled
> kernel.  The (open)Suse wiki, however, has an article on how to patch
> the binary driver so that it will work, but that seems a bit dicey to
> me...
>
> So I'm looking for an alternative, and what comes to mind is to somehow
> accomplish the following:
>
>   1) when booting with the "default" kernel, us the accellerated nvidia
> driver
>   2) when booting with the "xen" kernel, revert to the standard VESA/fb
> driver
>
> Any thoughts on how I would go about this?
>
>


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John Lowry
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