[Spice-devel] spice performance

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:21 AM, brian <brianm at io.com> wrote:
>
>> That's the right device. Each PCI device has a vendor number, this shows
>> you "Red Hat, Inc." since the device is developed by Red Hat.
>
> Good, well then the emulated hardware is correct, so why is the driver not
> loaded?  I followed the instructions here:
> http://www.cs.rug.nl/~jurjen/ApprenticesNotes/ch28s06.html
>
> Step 6 says: "wget
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-qxl-0.0.12.tar.gz
> tar zxf xf86-video-qxl-0.0.12.tar.gz
> cd xf86-video-qxl-0.0.12
> sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev
> sudo apt-get remove -s xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
> xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-intel
> xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
> xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv
> xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition
> xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
> xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
> xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
> xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
> xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
> xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
> sudo apt-get remove nvidia-173-modaliases nvidia-185-kernel-source
> nvidia-185-libvdpau nvidia-185-modaliases nvidia-96-modaliases
> nvidia-common nvidia-glx-185 nvidia-settings
> ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr
> make
> sudo make install"
>
> There were no obvious errors during the install, yet the drivers have not
> been loaded.  I'm at a loss for where to begin trying to troubleshoot.
> Any ideas?  Is there an additional step required to force Ubuntu to use
> the new drivers?

you most likely need an xorg.conf with qxl driver specified in it.

Dave.