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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:00:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Kiril Vidimce <vkire@pixar.com>
To: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Dan Maas wrote:
> > We suddenly started seeing freezing problems on a number of machines
> > in the past couple of days. There is no pattern as far as I can tell.
> > It has happened while running OpenGL apps, netscape, or even when not
> > doing anything.
> 
> > Software:
> >     - NVIDIA drivers 1.0-1541
> 
> Sorry, we do not have the source to NVIDIA's driver, so we cannot help you
> debug this problem. Please contact NVIDIA support.

I don't see how one can magically tell that this is an NVIDIA problem. 
I am contacting NVIDIA at the same time and it's possible that the 
problem is with their drivers. However, there is something going on 
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.

KV
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