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Bug#602418: Debian Squeeze Xen with Nouveau or Radeon: Test packages



On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 15:52 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:14:13PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > I have put some test packages with the patches discussed further up the
> > bug (...)
> 
> > Please could you test and let me know how you get on. In particular
> > if you use Nouveau, since I only have Radeon cards to hand.
> 
> I use nouveau, but this will have to wait until 2011.

Thanks, 2011 is fine.

> > Lionel, one of your reports is regarding the nv driver. I'm assuming
> > you were just running that because Nouveau didn't work for you (per
> > the other bug). I don't know if these patches will help with nv or
> > not but my advice would be to switch back to Nouveau in any case.
> 
> I don't particularly care which one works. I was using nv before (with
> kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 and Xen 3.2.1); when I started to upgrade to
> kernel 2.6.32 and Xen 4.0, nv refused to load with a recent kernel
> (modesetting in effect), so I tried switching to nouveau, but hit this
> bug. I'm now using nouveau with kernel version 2.6.32-26+xen0, and
> that works nicely.

OK. I won't worry about NV then, thanks.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell
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