On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Chee How Chua [02-25-08 11:53]: ...

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But the ideal situation would probably have the system choose nv as the driver when you start the Xen kernel and have it run the nvidia driver when you use the plain vanilla kernel.

Does anyone have any idea if that can be achieved?

script incorporating "switch2nv" and "switch2nvidia" included in 3ddiag ??? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711

I tried How's suggestion and I believe I an running the nv drivers. I can now modify the resolution etc using Yast. When I start Xen, it gets to the point of starting kdm but the but the X server (?) doesn't start. I get a blank screen for a few seconds and then it returns to the terminal session. It gets to a logon promptt but accepts no input. This is as if I had an X session running and used ctrl+alt+F1 to get to the terminal. I can logon the system starting a new terminal session ctrl+alt+F2. If I as root in the second terminal session issue the command startx, there is a flurry of activity and then the error messages: FATAL: module nvidia not found (EE) Nvidia(0) failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module Screens found but none have a usable configuration. I will try Patrick's suggestion and see what happens. I am spending too much time on this. I should be painting the bedroom... Tom. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 08:51:51 am Chee How Chua wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Tom Cada wrote:

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I tried How's suggestion and I believe I an running the nv drivers. I can now modify the resolution etc using Yast.

When I start Xen, it gets to the point of starting kdm but the but the X server (?) doesn't start. I get a blank screen for a few seconds and then it returns to the terminal session. It gets to a logon promptt but accepts no input. This is as if I had an X session running and used ctrl+alt+F1 to get to the terminal. I can logon the system starting a new terminal session ctrl+alt+F2.

If I as root in the second terminal session issue the command startx, there is a flurry of activity and then the error messages:

FATAL: module nvidia not found (EE) Nvidia(0) failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module Screens found but none have a usable configuration.

That means X is still using the Nvidia driver. You mentioned that you could change the resolution using YaST. Did you do that in the plain kernel? Does booting into normal kernel work in GUI?

Does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file contain Driver "nv" or Driver "nvidia"

My guess is the latter - that would mean your system is still using Nvidia's driver.

OK, I was having a similar problem and that fixed it, thanks. Now for my next problem, there is a menu item ( System, Create Virtual Machines ). When I try to run it I get the hour glass and then nothing, am I missing something?? I hope to get a copy of WinXP running and maybe another copy of Suse. Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org