Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:39:38 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will a thread-safe nvidia-driver be available? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0411092129500.17726-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <200411100319.51920.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know when a thread-safe nvidia-driver will be available? > > After upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE and KDE-3.3.1, I noticed some newly > compiled KDE apps (e.g. kile and skim) core dump at start. The > backtraces of the core files show that they are all related with > libpthread and libGL (from nvidia-driver). And if I deinstall > nvidia-driver and use "nv" driver, all those core-dumping apps work > fine (even without recompilation). So I believe recent changes to > threading libraries and possibly some ports make some programs trigger > the thread-unsafe part of nvidia-driver more often. This is well known and explained in an entry in src/UPDATING, BTW. > As the 5.x branch is stablized, and TLS implemented, it should be time > to have a thread-safe nvidia-driver available. Ask nvidia since they are the ones that release it. Supposedly they were going to release a new version of the driver once FreeBSD was released with TLS support... -- DE
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