nvidia driver on FC10

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 08:20:57 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> vu pham wrote:
>>
>> I upgraded the BIOS to the latest one but it still happened twice this
>> morning, one when I was looking at some man page, one when I was using
>> email. :(
>
> Have you run memtest on this box?
>
> That's usually the first thing I check for when a box is crashing randomly.

While that's a possibility, the fact that he seems to be getting a
kernel Oops/panic suggests a real bug somewhere.

Trying a newer NVIDIA driver, or temporarily switching (back) to the
'nv' X driver might be a worthwhile experiment.

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