Kernel crash

[Chethiya Ranaweera]

>From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Kernel crash
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:56 -0500
>
>On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:14 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > 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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>Thanks, well I looked into xorg.conf and found out that it is already set 
>to "nv". Any other suggestions?
>