Re: New nvidia drivers available

From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:39:40 +0200
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 02:56, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:34:24 +0100
> Doug Rabson <dfr_at_nlsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > The latest 6113 build of the nvidia graphics drivers has just appeared
> > 
> > on nvidia's web site. Check out 
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html if you are
> > currently using the nvidia proprietary drivers. This driver works
> > nicely on FreeBSD-current and while this version is not thread-safe,
> > it does not conflict with libpthread or libthr's use of %gs so you
> > don't have to map everything down to libc_r any more :-).
> > 
> > There will be a thread-safe driver available for FreeBSD-current 
> > sometime after I commit the pthread parts of the TLS support code.
> >
> 
> Im running the new driver on a recent -CURRENT and xorg 6.7.0. When
> starting zsnes I get this:
> 
> beard ~> zsnes
> Fatal error 'Exceeded maximum lock level' at line 261 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_cancel.c (errno = 0) Bus error (core
> dumped)
> beard ~>

Same error message here when starting neverball. If I map
libpthread->libc_r it's working again.

xawtv also stopped working. Fortunately setting -xvport manually did fix
that.
Received on Sun Aug 15 2004 - 06:39:48 UTC

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