Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:04:25 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New nvidia drivers available Message-ID: <200408151204.25592.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:34, 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. This is most awesome. I could only get the the module to load if I had device mem and device io in my kernel spec. Using the mem and io kernel modules would cause undefined symbols to mem_range_attr_set when trying to load nvidia.ko in /boot/loader.conf Nice work :-) -Alastair
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