[Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:38 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> >> It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the
> >> modern graphics subsystem when running Xen.
> > 
> > Well. All the intel cards seems to work.
> > 
> > Bastian
> 
> I can confirm that issues that has been reported to the xen-devel list
> were only with specific cards like ATI and another brand that I cannot
> recall.

I think it's Nvidia (using Nouveau rather than the proprietary driver,
the latter stands no chance of working).

>  These cards drivers are playing too much with memory mapping,
> which creates issues.

It's not "too much" -- their behaviour is reasonable but just needs
extra care under Xen.

Ian.
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