On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't see how one can magically tell that this is an NVIDIA problem.
>
> We don't know. But since we don't have their source and they have our
> source only they can tell you.
>
> > in the kernel and I imagine that even if the NVIDIA drivers are
> > triggering the problem, there are other modules/apps that can bring
> > about the same behavior.
>
> Possibly, but you'll have to ask Nvidia to debug it for you. If you can
> reproduce a bug by
> - removing the nvidia modules so they wont be loaded
> - hard booting the machine
> - triggering the bug without loading the nvidia drivers
>
> then please report it. If not, its between you and nvidia.
Without turning this into a religous debate, is there any way to
find out what those messages really mean? When does one run into
an ldt allocation failure? What is ldt? I am not just trying to
solve this problem; I also want to understand what is going on
in the kernel.
Thanks for any explanations.
KV
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