From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 20:20:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6846F16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta09-svc.ntlworld.com (mta09-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7652C43D3F for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:20:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com) Received: from spc2-with1-3-0-cust67.bagu.broadband.ntl.com ([82.4.167.67]) by mta09-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040814202150.DTSQ24416.mta09-svc.ntlworld.com@spc2-with1-3-0-cust67.bagu.broadband.ntl.com> for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:21:50 +0100 From: Glyn Tebbutt To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092514959.2097.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:22:39 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:16:48 +0000 Subject: Re: New nvidia drivers available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:20:57 -0000 On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 19:34, Doug Rabson 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This is great news, thanks for posting this, im currently using -CURRENT as the nvidia drivers before these wouldnt work with 5.2.1, im not a developer so i'd prefer to stick with release Again thanks for all the work --