On Saturday 24 March 2007 23:58, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2007 13:45, Jeffery Fernandez wrote:
> > Now my question is how can I load the nvidia drivers into the kernel? Do
> > I have to re-compile the Xen-kernel to do so? Or is it just a matter of
> > loading the drivers through a command?
> >
> > I don't want to disable the nvidia entry in the X config as I need the
> > graphics card to work properly to do my work.
>
> Do you really need 3D? Because right now, the nvidia driver doesn't support
> the xen kernel. 

No I don't need real 3D support. All I need is for the nvidia libraries to be 
loaded. Strangely enough Firefox browser is very slow if I am viewing heavily 
loaded (AJAX based) sites. After much researching GTK is to be blamed for it. 
So after installing nvidia drivers it fixed the problems.

>There are patches floating around that makes it work
> partly, but if you want real support, you'll have to wait for it.
> The nv driver works though, you'll get everything except 3D acceleration

So where should I start looking for these patches? I came across this post: 
http://susediary.blogspot.com/2006/06/nvidia-driver-hack-for-xen-kernel-suse.html
 
but it seems a bit out-dated to me.

cheers,
Jeffery
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