Kernel panic and sound problem

[Si Jones]

> > 
> your bios is made by people unable to read the acpi spec., nothing new
> there
> > I tried using a later kernel but it wont boot as udev dies and the
> > kernel panics.
> 
> 
> are you using nvidia binary kernel modules linked into your kernel ?
> -- 
I did use to have them in but have un-installed them, but the device
files for creating the entries in dev have been left..

Should i remove them????