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From: Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@web.de>
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Subject: NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)
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Hi,

after upgrading the Kernel I found that the glx-related programs of
the NVidia graphics driver die in calls to sysarch. Here is a truss
fragment of a 'glxinfo' run:

sysarch(0x1,0xbfbffb14)				 ERR#22 'Invalid argument'
SIGNAL 10
SIGNAL 10
Process stopped because of:  16
process exit, rval = 138

In the sysarch call the first argument indicats - according to
machine/sysarch.h - a call of I386_SET_LDT. For 4.X it was necessary
to enable USER_LDT in the kernel config. This option is no longer
present in the kernel config (the NVidia driver worked without
before my cvs update...).

Best regards

        -Thorsten

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