nvidia drivers from freshrpms.net

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 18:29:47 UTC 2006


You don't need to uninstall the xen kernel, just don't boot it unless
you're doing something with xen.  However, don't expect the nvidia
driver to work very well, if at all, with xen, as the two aren't
expected to work properly together right now.

On 11/1/06, Fernando Lozano <fernando at lozano.eti.br> wrote:
> Hi Lonni,
>
> I just added Xen packages when installing using anaconda. It looks like
> doing this makes my system boot a Xen kernel. So should I uninstall Xen?
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano
>
> > The only reason you'd need kernel-xen-devel is if you're running the
> > xen kernel.  The NVIDIA driver generally isn't compatible with xen
> > kernels right now.
> >
> >> Found that need to install kenel-xen-devel so the nvidia kernel module
> >> can be build and loaded. Now when I start X I get a blak screen and a
> >> complain that the GLX extension cannot be loaded, but it looks like I'm
> >> loading the correct one from nvidia. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> []s, Fernando Lozano

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