From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756299AbXHBPJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753283AbXHBPJI (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:09:08 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:59427 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753003AbXHBPJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:09:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:09:06 -0400 To: Marc Perkel Cc: Michal Piotrowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Woke up to a crashed kernet this morning - nVidia is crap Message-ID: <20070802150906.GC14084@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <6bffcb0e0708020728x5751fc76pad5deadce3a21a5b@mail.gmail.com> <898083.40014.qm@web52507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <898083.40014.qm@web52507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:46:49AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > 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. It installs a kernel module just for the video card. Nothing else. But being a kernel module means any bugs in it could mess up other stuff in the kernel. Now if you can reproduce the crash without the nvidia module, then you have something to report. For what it is worth, it seems the nvidia module has very rarely been the cause of crashes, but since you can never tell, it is best to reproduce the problem without it to be sure. -- Len Sorensen