Couldn't alloc class " NVDANV10Hal"

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alex londonalex london
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I see this on single -user start-up when I'm about to do my fsck -y just after " using 3932 buffer headers and 3932 cluster buffer headers" What does it mean? Does it matter?

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    paispais Posts: 34member
    [quote]Originally posted by Alex London:

    <strong>I see this on single -user start-up when I'm about to do my fsck -y just after " using 3932 buffer headers and 3932 cluster buffer headers" What does it mean? Does it matter?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I've seen the same message somewhere (in the syslog, afaik).



    The NV10 is better known as the original GeForce256 -- the chip that more or less kicked off the whole TnL craze "back in the day". My wild speculation is that the kernel probes for a GeForce chipset (the original, mind you), and doesn't find one, producing an error. The cryptic term itself -- "NVDANV10Hal" -- most likely stands for "Nvidia NV10 HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)".



    If you're not having any problems (I doubt you are, especially if you don't have an NV10 chip), then I don't think you need to worry about it. I've got a new PB12", and I'm not.



    Edit: minor grammatical error.



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    alex londonalex london Posts: 613member
    Many thanks Pais for your input. I do get the occasional wierd stuff happening on my DP 533, like "error code -2 returned by the the core audio driver" when I launch Logic 5.5 but a second attempt always gets me in, I just wondered if this message might be the cause. I also thought that there might be a nVidia connection- I have the stock Geforce 2 MX. Thanks again- Alex
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