Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:30:38 -0700 From: Jie Gao <jeffgaofreebsd@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: When will a thread-safe nvidia-driver be available? Message-ID: <639522fe041109143072521ecc@mail.gmail.com>
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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. As the 5.x branch is stablized, and TLS implemented, it should be time to have a thread-safe nvidia-driver available.
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