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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Ken MacFerrin <lists@macferrin.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:486 - kernel 2.6.15-r1
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:46:53 +0000
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On Monday 30 January 2006 00:56, Ken MacFerrin wrote:
[snip]
> Unfortunately it seems that the "nv" driver in Xorg does not currently
> support multiple displays on a single video card with dual heads.  Not
> being able to at least run xinerama is a deal breaker for me so I'm back
> to the binary nvidia driver using twinview.  At this point I will apply
> Hugh's patch and post any further "Bad page state" and "Bad rmap"
> messages as instructed.

Indeed, Hugh's patch is the best way to proceed with discovering who the 
culprits are. Using the "nv" driver was not really meant as a debugging aide, 
but as a last resort if the patch yields nothing useful.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.