Re: PROBLEM: kernel panic

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:00 -0700, Scott Petler wrote:
> Doug,
> 
> I thought that might do it, it does seem to work.  I edited the driver 
> line in my xorg.conf
> from nvidia to nv and then,
> <alt><ctrl> F1
> login as root
> /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> /etc/init.d/gdm start
> 
> It came back up with the same flashing crap on the second monitor, so I 
> did it again with
> the 2nd monitor turned off altogether, and I'll see how long it will run 
> on the single monitor
> without the nvidia driver without crashing (maybe forever...).
> 
> Thanks, 
> Scott

Please don't forget to reboot, though. The kernel will remain tainted
until you've rebooted without loading the nvidia module.

Cheers
  Trond