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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:07:09 -0400
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
To:        Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New nvidia drivers available
Message-ID:  <20040814210709.g2ux9ckcskgw0cow@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20040815025601.522b2f7c.manlix@demonized.net>
References:  <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <20040815025601.522b2f7c.manlix@demonized.net>

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Quoting Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net>:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:34:24 +0100
> Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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.
>>
>
> Im running the new driver on a recent -CURRENT and xorg 6.7.0. When
> starting zsnes I get this:
>
> beard ~> zsnes
> Fatal error 'Exceeded maximum lock level' at line 261 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_cancel.c (errno = 0) Bus error (core
> dumped)
> beard ~>
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I believe this is probably the problem:

"this version is not thread-safe" (from above)

Ken



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