* Re: Woke up to a crashed kernet this morning - nVidia is crap
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@ 2007-08-02 14:46 ` Marc Perkel
2007-08-02 15:09 ` Lennart Sorensen
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From: Marc Perkel @ 2007-08-02 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Piotrowski; +Cc: linux-kernel
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
>
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