On 02/11/2012 01:01 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
On 02/10/2012 11:13 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
On 02/10/2012 09:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
You're using the nvidia driver; this is not going to work.
Are you sure? On my laptop which has the same configuration (Wheezy,
nvidia, gnome-shell) I can login without problems (I haven't tried
setting up a domU though).
My information may be out of date.
The kernel team does not support the nvidia driver, since we do not
have access to its source code and cannot predict what it will do. If
you are interested in pursuing a fix from that end, please feel free
to file a bug against src:nvidia-graphics-drivers, and the maintainers
might be able to point you in the right direction.
*searches* Ah, looks like this is already filed as [1], so you can
follow up there if you have ideas for moving forward on that.
As a nouveau user, of course I'm biased and prefer it. ;-)
That making software free is making software better -and not only
technically- is obvious. But we are at the mercy of the hardware
manufacturers, at least for now, and the nouveau developers have a much
more difficult task to achieve that the nvidia developers.
My (ambitious) goal is to setup a windoze domU with VGA passthrough to
play games in, because I refuse to dual-boot. I could be wrong, but I
assumed that the driver used by the dom0 would have an effect on the
performance of the domU. And I think that adding another proprietary
program to a chain of proprietary programs is not a grave offense.
[...]
Sorry I forgot, it's GeForce GT 440.
Thanks. So this is an NVC3.
There has been some important relevant work in v3.3-rc2. Could you
test a 3.3-rc2 or newer kernel from kernel.org? See [2] for
instructions.
Thanks, but it didn't work (assuming I didn't make a mistake compiling
the kernel). I am confident that this will be fixed as newer kernels or
binary drivers become available. Will you leave this report open until
then, in case someone else has the same problem?
Thanks very much,
Jonathan
I am the one that must thank you! ;-)
Best regards, Panayiotis
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/570365
[2]
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-kernel-org-package
or the corresponding page in the debian-kernel-handbook package
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