Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:32:34 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 22:03, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > I've never had an oops that was specifically caused by the nvidia > > > module, tho I suppose it does happen. > > > And I have never seen one either. > > How do you know? >
I don't know for sure. In the past week or two I saw two OOPS-with-tainted-kernel posts, and in both cases the user was able to reproduce the problem with an untainted kernel. But that was not my point, I should have used a better example.
> > I am just using the OOPS'es as an > > indication of how many Linux users use this driver. > > How do you know the OOPSes aren't caused (indirectly) by nVidia?
I don't, see above. But, this is offtopic.
> Sure, the > incidence seems to have gone down, and perhaps lusers have learnt not to > post OOPSes for tainted kernels... >
Eh, I wouldn't call them lusers, posting an OOPS is complicated for a non-geek, you can't expect everyone to get it 100% right the first time.
> > It's WAY more than > > I expected. > > Now you confuse me... you see _many_ OOPSes with nVidia, but know for > _sure_ nVidia has nothing to do with it?
I meant that the number of people using the nvidia driver was way more than I would have thought. There are a *lot* of people gaming on Linux these days, I had no idea. This is great.
Lee
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