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On Monday 08 September 2003 00:17, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:13, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

*SCHNIP*

> > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> >
> > Something is using i386_set_ldt() static ldt allocations.  We
> > added the warning message to detect usage of these allocations
> > so they could be changed to dynamic allocations.
> >
> > Our threads libraries make use of LDTs on i386, so having
> > other code also use (possibly) the same LDT would break
> > things.
> >
> > > Only ode still exists which is:
> > > 541  ??  S      0:15,50 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -auth
> > > /var/run/xauth/A:0-2CitM
> >
> > What is ode?  Typo?  pid?
> >
> > I don't see how XFree86 can use i386_set_ldt().  It doesn't
> > reference it on my box:
> >
> >   $ nm /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 | grep ldt
> >   $
>
> XFree86 loads various modules from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.  That said, I
> could find nothing about ldts being used anywhere in the source
> (grepping for LDT, sldt, and set_ldt).
>
> Perhaps the nvidia driver is being used?  That's the only thing I could
> think of.

Yep, exactly that's the driver I'm using (GF4MX440-8)
(I'm one of those without ANY problem with this card/driver (dualHead) btw.)

Thanks,

-Harry

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