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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:54:33 -0600
From:      Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
To:        "C. Kukulies" <kuku@www.kukulies.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFreeze86 4.3.0 under 5.2.1R
Message-ID:  <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org>
References:  <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org>

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On 3/24/2004 3:06 PM, C. Kukulies wrote:
> I installed 5.2.1R on a PIII/500 Box with a GA-BX2000 MB and 256 MB.
> GeForceMX400/64MB.
> 
> I compiled /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver, installed and loaded it.
> First time without WITH_FREEBSD_AGP later WITH_FREEBSD_BSD.
> In the first case I was exactly once able to startup X11 (startx).
> After rebooting (with or without agp:load="YES") I get a totally
> freezing system. The screen flashes once or twice but stays in alpha mode
> and then I can only press the reset switch.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Strange that I once was able to run it. That was at the time
> right after the java ports build while my system was
> still up and had the linux procfs mounted. I'm just mentioning this because
> the nvidia driver is somehow linux related, isn't it?

Are you globally mapping libc_r to libkse in /etc/libmap.conf?  If so, 
remove this global mapping.  The NVIDIA driver doesn't like threading 
libraries that don't have TLS (which is planned to be ready for 5.3).

More info (from NVIDIA no less):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html

The NVIDIA/FreeBSD FAQ:
http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/

Jon



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