Mailing List Archive: Fwd: xen and xwindows

Since Xen doesn't support agp I'm considering a PCI eVGA Nvidia
Geforce2 MX 400 w/ 64MB DDR, 2x/4x. Should that card work with the
binary drivers from nvidia? What about the standard xorg drivers?

Nate

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:57:05 -0000, Ian Pratt <m+ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > To get Xen 2.0 to use xwindows I use the "vga" driver which
> > does not make for a good looking X. Does the Xen binary dist
> > come with other good generic xwindows drivers? If not will I
> > need to recompile to get support for i810?
>
> Does the xfree86 i810 driver not work? If it relies on agpgart it
> currently won't work, but we're hoping to sort this out in the next
> couple of weeks.
>
> The VESA generic driver won't work either (because it requires vm86
> support), but there is an experimental patch for this that will probably
> go into the unstable tree soon.
>
> Ian
>

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> Since Xen doesn't support agp I'm considering a PCI eVGA Nvidia

Xen does support AGP cards, just not (yet) the AGPGART driver that *some* AGP
cards require. If you had an AGP card that didn't need the GART driver, you
should be OK...

> Geforce2 MX 400 w/ 64MB DDR, 2x/4x. Should that card work with the
> binary drivers from nvidia? What about the standard xorg drivers?

The NVIDIA binary drivers don't work. The standard xorg NVidia drivers should
work OK (can anyone out there confirm this?), although they don't offer as
much functionality as the binary drivers.

HTH,
Mark

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