Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:46:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Marc Perkel <> | Subject | Re: Woke up to a crashed kernet this morning - nVidia is crap |
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OK - so the driver I downloaded from nVidia to fix their problem I was having with the video installed drivers for everything? I'm really getting to dislike nVidia.
--- Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nvidia binary crap > > " When you are using a binary driver, the kernel > is "tainted", > which means that the source > of possible problems may be unrelated to the kernel > code (see > https://secure-support. > novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/250/3582750_f.SAL_Public.html > for more de- > tails). You can check whether or not the kernel was > tainted when the > problem occurred by > looking at the corresponding error message. If can > you see something > similar to the following > line: > EIP: 0060:[<c046c7c3>] Tainted: P > VLI > (the word Tainted is crucial here), the kernel was > tainted and most > probably the kernel > developers will not be able to help you. In that > case you should try > to reproduce the problem > without the binary driver loaded. Moreover, if the > problem does not > occur without it, you > should send a bug report to the creators of the > binary driver and ask > them to ï¬x it. > In the ï¬le Documentation/oops-tracing.txt, > included in the kernel > sources, there is a > list of reasons why the kernel can be considered as > tainted. As > follows from this document, > the presence of a binary module is not the only > possible reason of > tainting the kernel, but > in practice it turns out to be the most frequent > one. Generally, you > should avoid reporting > problems in tainted kernels to the LKML (or to the > kernel developers > in general) and the > problems related to binary drivers should be > reported to their providers." > > -- Linux Kernel Tester's Guide > > Regards, > Michal > > -- > LOG > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ >
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