On 10/03/2010 07:55 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Natasha Ament [10-03-10 17:17]:

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I ran into the same trouble with my desktop and found out the following:

the xen kernel is a different kernel and the module should be recompiled, however the nvidia drivers are not compatible with xen ...

You should be good to go w/o any xorg.conf. Recent versions of X do not require an xorg.conf file. I do not have one but not running xen :^)

So, Natasha's comment was key to understanding the problem; Patrick's was key to getting around it. Thanks, very much. Nvidia had indeed inserted an Xorg.conf that pointed to the proprietary driver, so the desktop kernel was happy but xen was not. I renamed Xorg.conf and rebooted into desktop, which was still happy with the community driver. Then I rebooted into xen, and xen was happy with the community driver. I don't see any performance difference, since I don't use the stuff that needs max video performance. Someday I'll figure out how to run the speed testers (glxgears?), and work out getting Natasha's means of using scripts to use the proprietary driver in the desktop version (although that won't be soon, if ever; I really want to make xen work to share my wife's xp and my suse without rebooting). Maybe sometime soon nvidia and the kernel folks will get together again so I don't have to have two drivers available. I imagine my son, when he gets home from Germany, will want to get back into high-performance gaming, so will want the desktop version with the proprietary driver. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org