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Re: Can't start X with Nvidia



On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:06:24PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> When I modprobe NVdriver, I get the following message:
> 
>   Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will
>   taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
>     See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
>     tainted modules
>     nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVdriver Kernel Module  1.0-3123  Tue
>     Aug 27 15:56:48 PDT 2002
>     Module NVdriver loaded, with warnings

Yeah, that's fine.  Read the URL that it provides.  Basically, once
you've loaded a module that taints the kernel, you are officially not
getting help picking apart core dumps from the lkml as I understand
it.

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