[Fedora-xen] kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 X broken on MacBook

W. Michael Petullo mike at flyn.org
Thu Mar 25 04:11:32 UTC 2010


>> I just tried kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 from Mike
>> Young's repository on my MacBook and found that the video driver does
>> not seem to work. Lspci reports:
>>
>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M (rev b1)
 
> Have previous versions of the xendom0 kernels worked successfully?

Yes. However, I have been away from Xen for a few months. I have lost
track of which kernel I was using before. I know that it worked fine on
my graphics card with no changes to the default (non-Xen) configuration.

> What is the grub.conf entry? Have you passed nomodeset to the kernel module?

I tried adding nomodeset, but that did not help by itself. I ended up
doing the following:

1. Add nomodeset to kernel command line.

2. Create an xorg.conf that uses the VESA driver (X -configure, edit).

3. Deactivate dri2 and dri in xorg.conf.

4. Boot Xen Dom0 kernel into runlevel 3.

5. rmmod nouveau; init 5.

This works (of course, the VESA driver is not optimal).

-- 
Mike

:wq


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