RE: [Xen-devel] nvidiafb in domU causes cpu to lockup

["Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been playing with X in domU again, got succesfull once, but find
> it hard to reproduce because nvidiafb keeps locking up.
> My setup is a Centos5 system, using 2 nvidia cards, and 2 usb cards.
> I assign the PCI Graphics card and one usb card to DomU using pciback,
> which seems to work great.
> The problem occurs when I want to modprobe nvidiafb in DomU, almost
all
> the time it locks up, thus I am unable to use it as a display device
> for X.
> I tried with and without X running in dom0 (using nv driver in dom0 by
> the
> way)

Does the nvidiafb driver work reliably in dom0? Even if you build xen
with debug=y ?

> I also tried to start X in domU with nv driver, but that gives a
> different
> error:
>     Fatal server error:
>     xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (0x000a0000,0x20000)
(Bad
> address)

This may help with the above issue:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg01516.html

Ian


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