Then you should post an nvidia-bug-report.log here, so someone can look into the problem: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 On 8/1/06, Albert Graham <agraham@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Dave, I do have Nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run) which is the latest version. Albert. Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:38:13PM +0100, Albert Graham wrote: > > My machine just locked up, /var/log/messages show a single line message > > > > Aug 1 20:01:32 agraham kernel: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! > > (-1) > > The only recent reports of this I've seen have been from users of the > nvidia binary module. Is this the case here too ? > The reports did seem to tail off, so it's possible they fixed something > in their newer versions. > > Dave > > > The following is the log from a "BUG: soft lockup" I get today. > > May be related to the same problem. Something that should happen > in a split-second took an extraordinary time to complete, so the > kernel complained.
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