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Subject: Re: oops in 2.4.19-rc1
To: generica@email.com (Brett)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:09:02 +0100 (BST)
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> Yes, the kernel is tainted, thanks to NVdriver
> I booted with it, changed X to use nv driver and restarted X, so kernel 
> stayed tainted, but module is no longer loaded.

The module could have done the damage already. Do this from a cold
boot never loading the NV driver. The crash looks like memory corruption
so its important to do this and may also be worth running memtest86 a bit
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