Tony Nugent <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Probably because the nvidia binary-only driver eats insane amounts > > of vmalloc memory. > Since it wants 4Mb of the 64Mb video ram (I assume that's what it > wants), I tried limiting the driver's use to 60Mb in XF86Config > (VideoRam 61440) but that didn't make any difference. It's not about gfx card memory ... > Are there any workarounds possible? > (With the nvidia driver being binary-only and all, I suspect that > I'm not going to get very far with this problem). Not using the binary-only crap? Maybe fiddeling with the vmalloc address space settings in one of the kernel header files and recompile the kernel. Gerd -- /join #zonenkinder