Kernel crash

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:07 +0000, Chethiya Ranaweera wrote:
> 
> sorry about that. I am new to this mail group and this is the first time I 
> am asking for help.  So what I understand from this is following:
> Even though I can boot  my old kernel w/o any problem, after upgrading the 
> kernel to the latest stable version I may have problems if I don't have the 
> latest nvidia drivers.  Right?
> 
> 
No. YOU said that you suspected nvidia. Indeed it is a frequent problem.
I am simply suggesting that you make a change to xorg.conf that will
take you all of 30 seconds (nvidia to nv). If the new kernel then boots,
then we know that the problem is the nvidia driver. If, not then it is
ruled out. With all due respect, this "test" would take considerably
less time than what has been consumed by this colloquy. 

Just to be clear, xorg.conf is located in /etc/X11. Change this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"

To this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"

Then see if your new kernel is still DOA.
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