Re: New nvidia drivers available

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:24, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sunday 15 August 2004 09:39, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > 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
...
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> This might be because libGL calls libpthread's version of open() before 
> libpthread has initialised properly. This patch might fix it - it fixes 
> neverball's map compiler for me but I haven't actually run neverball 
> itself.

That fixed the problem, thanks.

Just noticed that libthr seems to have similiar problems. Here's a
backtrace when starting neverball using libthr.

#0  0x2810aafc in testcancel () at
/usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_cancel.c:119
#1  0x2810ab67 in _thread_enter_cancellation_point ()
    at /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_cancel.c:134
#2  0x2810a447 in _open (path=0x0, flags=2)
    at /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_syscalls.c:287
#3  0x282211e1 in glXChannelRectSyncSGIX () from
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
#4  0x28244e00 in ?? () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
#5  0x00000002 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000078 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfbfdda4 in ?? ()
#11 0x28a9d09a in _nv001115gl () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#12 0x00000914 in ?? ()
lots of lines like the above follow