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From: Kiril Vidimce <vkire@pixar.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
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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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