Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 659378 the nouveau driver does not work at all with my machine tags 659378 + upstream moreinfo quit Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Yes I am sorry, but the nouveau driver does not work at all with my machine, 3.1 or 3.3 kernel, Xen or no Xen. The X server does not start at all, I get a

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/11/2012 01:01 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 02/10/2012 11:13 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work. Are you sure? On my laptop which has the same

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: That making software free is making software better -and not only technically- is obvious. But we are at the mercy of the hardware manufacturers, at least for now, and the nouveau developers have a much more difficult task to achieve that the nvidia developers.

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 14:36 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: My (ambitious) goal is to setup a windoze domU with VGA passthrough to play games in, because I refuse to dual-boot. I could be wrong, but I assumed that the driver used by the dom0 would have an effect on the performance of the

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 06:51 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: [...] There has been some important relevant work in v3.3-rc2. Could you test a 3.3-rc2 or newer kernel from kernel.org? See [2] for instructions. Thanks, but it didn't work (assuming I didn't make a mistake compiling the

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/11/2012 02:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: That making software free is making software better -and not only technically- is obvious. But we are at the mercy of the hardware manufacturers, at least for now, and the nouveau developers have a much more

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/11/2012 03:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 14:36 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: My (ambitious) goal is to setup a windoze domU with VGA passthrough to play games in, because I refuse to dual-boot. I could be wrong, but I assumed that the driver used by the dom0

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7fffe9310674 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.290.10 You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work. Can you reproduce this using nouveau? What is your

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-10 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/10/2012 11:13 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7fffe9310674 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.290.10 You're using

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-10 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7fffe9310674 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.290.10 You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work. Are

Bug#659378: [xen dom0] gnome-shell fails to start

2012-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 02/10/2012 11:13 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work. Are you sure? On my laptop which has the same configuration (Wheezy, nvidia, gnome-shell) I can login