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XGL and Xen Can Mix on a T61p

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 26, 2007

[ Thanks to Ross
Brunson
for this link. ]

“I write this post from my cube-spinning phenom of a laptop, my
Lenovo T61p. Owing to its newness, there were a few hiccups
configuring SLED 10 SP1. One that caused no small annoyance was
getting X working when running the Xen kernel. I tried all kinds of
sax2 command line permutations to get even a basic VESA frame
buffer configuration working… all to no avail :(. Thanks to a few
wikis at opensuse.org and some great pointers from some fellow
geeks, I’m able to use the Nvida driver with the Xen kernel… wait
for it, with XGL enabled!

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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