Comment 3 for bug 717873

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pepre (me-pepre) wrote : Re: NVIDIA X driver causes flickering

After upgrading to 8GB RAM i got the same error (0) and X segfaulted.

According to (1) i switched off the dual channel mode and the problem disappeared.

So i think this is not - as assumed above - a HW failure but a problem of the nvidia module which is confused by large RAM in dualchannel mode.

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(0) NVRM: Xid (0000:03:00): 6, PE0001
(1) https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=18836